Another August, another Edinburgh Festival.

On the second page of Trainspotting Welsh makes clear the relationship between Leith and Edinburgh. Renton and Sick Boy, desperate for a taxi at the Foot of Leith Walk to go and score with Johnny Swan in Tollcross, fulminate: ‘Supposed to be a rank… [all...

Crowded bookshelves?

The latest offering in book form on Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting industry has just appeared. John Neil Munro’s Lust for Life hit the bookshops last week. Munro is a long-standing friend of Welsh, so it’s similar to Sandy Mcnair’s Carspotting....