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.
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From the Blog
Easter 2016
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 David Bowie; more than a...
read moreThe first paragraph.
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 reading of...
read more23 February 1996
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...
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