You know how children squabble over their favourites? Well, who is your least favourite character in Trainspotting? Begbie is the clear-cut choice in the film, but the book is more subtle. Is it Sick Boy's cynical pimping of wee Maria, and his attitude that 'the nasty...

Thanks to everyone who came on a tour during August. The weather was never kind to us. But, standing at the foot of the ramp that used to lead up to platform level at Leith Central Station - the location for the eponymous utterance - I finally sorted out what's going...

Last Friday Welsh joined with Scottish and American literary friends in a fun evening of readings and anecdotes. On Saturday he read from Skagboys at the Edinburgh Book Festival, and on Sunday he gave the 'keynote speech' at a writers' conference broadly on the...