Welsh's latest return to his characters is called Men in Love. He's previously written follow-up books and a prequel about ...

"Enormous tension between the ambition of the wide screen format and a small device - highly flexible, very little footprint... You need a great cinematographer to bring those two tensions together." ...

The Scottish author speaks to the BBC ahead of the launch of his new book, Men in Love. Senate committee votes to block Trump ...

This week, a debut horror novel and the sequels to beloved stories from Irvine Welsh and Esther Freud topped the book reviews ...

Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel "Trainspotting" as an antidote to a world ...

In "Trainspotting," when Mark Renton explains what it's like to shoot heroin to his friend Tommy, he launches into one of Welsh's irades. "Basically, we live a short, ...

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) emerges triumphantly from his toilet dive in Trainspotting. For die-hard fans of Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit Trainspotting, the just-released sequel, T2 Trainspotting ...

The final scene of "Trainspotting" saw Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) absconding with a satchel full of cash and delivering, in voiceover, his famous "choose life" speech. For years moviegoers ...

Inside 'T2: Trainspotting': Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor and the original cast on how, 20 years later, they finally reunited for a near-perfect sequel.

After "Trainspotting," McGregor landed roles in another Danny Boyle film, "A Life Less Ordinary" and "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" playing Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Trainspotting 2, meanwhile, is Trainspotting‘s mirror image, full of insight and clever observations, but instead of ending with the possibility that Renton might go off to live a better life ...

Trainspotting not only reflected the enthusiasm of boomtown Britain, but a Scottish culture self-confident enough to set fire to conventional ways of thinking about national identity.