Irvine Welsh: The Next Chapter
Author Irvine Welsh says 'everything is set up for addiction' today. The Scottish writer speaks to Katie Razzall ahead of the publication of the sequel to his 1990s classic Trainspotting.
Irvine Welsh’s first novel, Trainspotting, achieved cult status. Its depiction of the lives of a group of heroin addicts in Leith tapped into the zeitgeist of the 1990s and was turned into a hit film.
The author has now written a sequel, picking up where Trainspotting left off and catching up with the exploits of the gang. The writer speaks to Katie Razzall about class, the way music influences his writing and why he worries culture is dying.
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