Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
The tours: engaging, intelligent, entertaining, heart-breaking, well-informed in every part of the Trainspotting Phenomenon. COMMENTS >>
The book: comprehensive, hugely informative, ground-breaking, very read-able, the only serious commentary, analysis and introduction to Trainspotting the book, the play and the film. EXCERPTS AND REVIEWS >>
From the Blog
Re-arranging material
It's amazing how one's material can be re-arranged. Some years ago I was talking with a chap in the publishing game who said it was obvious, to him anyway, that my book about Trainspotting must start with my critical analysis of the book itself. So I went with it,...
read moreEdinburgh in August. Wish you were here?
I hope they're not calling me curmudgeonly, out on the street there. They could be. Not entirely without reason, it has to be said. That's the Edinburgh Festival over for another year, I'm told. How many shows did I go to? One. And that was with a grandchild. It was a...
read moreThe Voice.
'Ere the month is out, I must blog. It is written. So, dear reader(s? - more than one? - that would be nice), I blog. (does "to blog" exist as a verb? - Ed.) You must not think, dear reader(s?), that I blog for blogging's sake. No, this month I have been busy on the...
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