Trainspotting

novel by Welsh

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In Edinburgh: Cultural life
…the 1930s; and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting (1993), which examines the city’s nihilistic underbelly at the end of the 20th century. The home of many celebrated writers and publishers past and present—including crime writers Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin and children’s novelist J.K. Rowling—Edinburgh was declared UNESCO’s first City of…
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In Ian Rankin on Edinburgh: A City of Stories: Edinburgh as literary metaphor
What followed was Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, published in 1993. It took as its subject matter the drug-taking scene of that time and was written in a street demotic which gave the novel added grit and a sense that these were real, contemporary lives. “Douce” Edinburgh, the city of Miss Jean…
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