by tim_bell | May 7, 2016 | Latest News
There is always an interest in Trainspotting, often taking the form of a look at how Leith has changed – or not changed – since the 1980s days of the heroin epidemic. Recently a French journo and his photographer were in town. See the images here....
by tim_bell | May 1, 2016 | Latest News
There was me, just 24 hours ago, walking through the Tiergarten in Berlin and coming towards the Brandenburg Gate. Cruelly, The Wall ran just to the west of the Gate, separating it from the Reichstag a few hundred yards away. Now the line of the despised Wall is...
by tim_bell | Apr 23, 2016 | Latest News
I was at my Stranger Than Fiction writers’ group the other evening, in the pub, of course. Some people say that non-fiction writers must be boring, but I don’t think that’s true at all. I just wouldn’t go if it was true. Anyway, this month we...
by tim_bell | Mar 27, 2016 | Latest News
Just finished – it’s never actually finalised till you sign off and it goes a publisher – my chapter on Trainspotting the book; it’s the longest chapter in my book. Long ago I realised that the ending of Trainspotting is more than a tribute to...
by tim_bell | Feb 23, 2016 | Latest News
Today’s the day! Twenty years since Trainspotting the film premiered. Here’s the opening paragraph of my chapter on the film: On February 23rd, 1996, Trainspotting the film was premiered. The speed of developments since the launch and that daring, insolent...
by tim_bell | Feb 20, 2016 | Latest News
Nice to be in the forefront. Edinburgh Central Library kindly invited me to give the talk Trainspotting at Twenty a week ahead of the anniversary of the launch of the film. Got a nice review: apparently I educate as effortlessly as I entertain, for example, which was...
