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Eight years on from Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh pens the sequel: Porno
Irvine Welsh is writing a follow-up to his novel Trainspotting, the book that spawned the film that started a run on Edinburgh-English dictionaries after the world was left wondering what exactly a...
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Rebel publisher plans cannabis cafe
He brought Trainspotting to print, and now he wants an urban retreat for Britain's dope smokersThe magazine turned publishing house that gave the world its first glimpse of Irvine Welsh's drug-fuelled...
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Young Begbie and other pre-Trainspotting stories
Rather than revisiting the early careers of Renton et al, Irvine Welsh would have done better to review his own youthful talentIn the 1990s he exploded on an overwhelmingly upper middle-class industry...
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Trainspotting: dialect
John Mullan on the diverse uses of dialect in Irvine Welsh's TrainspottingFor all readers of Trainspotting who do not come from lowland Scotland (and perhaps for some of them too), the main difficulty...
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John Mullan on the role of morality in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
John Mullan on the role of morality in Irvine Welsh's TrainspottingLook at the websites where fans of Irvine Welsh's novel discuss the book, and you will find sentiments such as this: "You may feel...
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Trainspotting: motivation
Irvine Welsh on the compulsion to write TrainspottingTrainspotting was the book I had to do, basically to get it out of the way, in order to become a writer. I had been obsessed with books and...
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Trainspotting: readers' responses
An audience of readers gives their varied responses to Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting. By John MullanAt this month's Guardian book club we heard more uses of the two worst four-letter words in the...
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Welsh offers chance to score a role in Trainspotting prequel
For all those who have harboured an (inexplicable) yearning to join the ranks of Irvine Welsh's motley crew of heroin addicts Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie, the chance of a lifetime is nigh: the...
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What happened to the Trainspotting generation?
The disaffected, heroin-addicted young men immortalised in Irvine Welsh's bestselling novel are now in their 40s. And, it emerged this week, they are dying fastAmong the many quotable passages in...
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From Stieg Larsson to Trainspotting: the best modern literary book tours
You've read the decade's hottest books. Now visit the locationsTired of traditional destinations, a growing number of avid readers have been allowing their literary tastes to dictate their holidays...
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Danny Boyle: Trainspotting sequel 'will happen'
Director plans to follow-up his 1996 breakthrough movie with a loose adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel PornoDanny Boyle has given his strongest indication yet that a sequel to his cult film about...
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John Hodge: from Trainspotting to Bulgakov
Does Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge's play, Collaborators – about an author forced to work for Stalin – echo his own Hollywood nightmare? Not quite, he tells Xan BrooksOne of the upsides to...
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Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'
TV gangster drama Boardwalk Empire has finally made a star of Kelly Macdonald. As she prepares for a new series, the Scottish actress talks about working with Scorsese and why the whole celeb thing is...
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Skagboys by Irvine Welsh – review
Despite some fine moments, Irvine Welsh's prequel to his blockbuster Trainspotting misses the markA long long time ago, back in the early 1990s, there were only three novels about Edinburgh. There was...
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Trainspotting sequel on track says Danny Boyle
The director hopes to reunite the original cast in time for the 20th anniversary of his first Irvine Welsh adaptationDanny Boyle has said he is planning a sequel to Trainspotting that could find its...
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Ewan McGregor ready to work with Danny Boyle on Trainspotting sequel Porno
Trainspotting star keen to take part in Danny Boyle's planned film based loosely on Irvine Welsh's bookEwan McGregor has confirmed his willingness to star in Danny Boyle's planned sequel to the cult...
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Rebel publisher plans cannabis cafe
He brought Trainspotting to print, and now he wants an urban retreat for Britain's dope smokersThe magazine turned publishing house that gave the world its first glimpse of Irvine Welsh's drug-fuelled...
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Young Begbie and other pre-Trainspotting stories
Rather than revisiting the early careers of Renton et al, Irvine Welsh would have done better to review his own youthful talentIn the 1990s he exploded on an overwhelmingly upper middle-class industry...
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Trainspotting: dialect
John Mullan on the diverse uses of dialect in Irvine Welsh's TrainspottingFor all readers of Trainspotting who do not come from lowland Scotland (and perhaps for some of them too), the main difficulty...
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John Mullan on the role of morality in Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting
John Mullan on the role of morality in Irvine Welsh's TrainspottingLook at the websites where fans of Irvine Welsh's novel discuss the book, and you will find sentiments such as this: "You may feel...
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