Irvine Welsh

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1993
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Trainspotting

1 - Skagboys (Sep-2012)
2 - Trainspotting (1993)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • Trainspotting

    Trainspotting - 2

    Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career -- an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s La...

  • The Acid House

    Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories -- the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan. He is called "the Scottish Celine of the 1990s" (Guardian) and "a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl" (W...

  • Marabou Stork Nightmares

    "For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic trip...a real tour de force." -- Madison Smartt Bell, Spin The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as "the best thing tha...

  • Ecstasy

    From the celebrated author of the best-selling cult classic Trainspotting, a new work of fiction that triumphantly puts the "E" back in Eros. With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually inven...

  • Filth

    From the author of the international sensation Trainspotting, here is a novel that actually lives up to its name. With Christmas season in the offing, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially -- looking forwa...

  • Catholic Guilt (You Know You Love It)

    in Speaking With the Angel
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    12 completely new stories, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today; clever, outrageous, witty, edgy, tender, wicked... this is what they meant by "original." Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded g...

  • Children of Albion Rovers

    Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge, and ...

  • Glue

    An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.The story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh projects, Glue is about the loyalties, the experiences, and the secrets that hold friends together through three decades. ...

  • Porno



  • The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

    "A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read."  -- Entertainment Weekly This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troub...

  • If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

    Irvine Welsh's first short-story collection since his debut work The Acid House presents five extraordinary stories, which remind us that he is a master of the short form, a brilliant storyteller, and--unarguably--one of today's funniest and most sub...

  • Crime

    Welsh's sizzling new novel, Crime, is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness. Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a menta...

  • Reheated Cabbage

    Never-collected tales, including outrageous early stories from the Trainspotting years, plus a raucous new novella.Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh’s trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous...

  • Skagboys

    Trainspotting - 1

    Marked by Irvine Welsh s scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a prett...

  • You'll Have Had Your Hole

  • The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

    The famed -- some would say notorious -- author of "Trainspotting" and many other brilliant offenses against common literary decency comes at last to America, with a dark and twisted tale of personal training and abject codependency in the fading gli...

  • A Decent Ride

    Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of TRAINSPOTTING and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters -- 'Juice' Terry Lawson -- that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth ...

  • The Blade Artist

    Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life -- and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say...

  • T2 Trainspotting

    First there was an opportunity...then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick B...



  • Rave

    Selected from Irvine Welsh's novel Ecstasy.

    VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

    A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human

    ...

  • 24 Stories

    In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London, killing at least 72 people and injuring many more. An entire community was destroyed. For many people affected by this tragedy, the psychological scar...

  • Dead Men's Trousers

    The International Bestseller from the author The New York Times called "blisteringly funny" -- it's the wild and wooly crew from Trainspotting back for one last adventure You don't need to have seen the blockbuster movie -- nor read the earlier m...

  • The Long Knives

    The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesIn Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime...Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vic...

  • Resolution

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Irvine Welsh has published 24 books.

Irvine Welsh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Resolution, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, was published in January 1993.

Yes. Irvine Welsh has 1 series.
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