A Decent Ride

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’?Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without ... A DECENT RIDE?A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.

Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award 2015
Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2015

'[Welsh] has never written with greater verve ... This is a novel packed with energy.' -- The Scotsman
'Not only cleverly conceived but genuinely, hauntingly, transgressive.' (For The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins) -- The Guardian
'Boisterous, exuberant.' -- The Sunday Times
'Proof [Welsh] can write convincingly about experiences suitably removed from his own.' (For The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins) -- The Independent

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse, he attended Ainslie Park Secondary School. At sixteen, he left education and took on various jobs, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he dabbled with the property market while spending his free time exploring the London punk scene. He then moved back to Edinburgh to study an MBA.Back home, and inspired by the nineties rave scene, he was fortunate enough to run into some fascinating characters whom he immortalised in his diary – and, later, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film, by Danny Boyle, three years later.Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in Chicago. Tam Dean Burn is a Scottish actor who has played a wide range of roles on stage and screen, including the TV series Taggart. His recent appearances include the 2016 film Moon Dogs as well as the TV series Fortitude, Outlander and City of Tales.

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