Men in Love

The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me… It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive – DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo (on Trainspotting)Like all his best work, Men in Love is propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure, as wise on the curdling of intense teenage friendships as it is on the early, doomed attempts we embark on in our twenties to settle down and fall in love * GQ *The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent * Sunday Times (on Trainspotting) *So propulsive…about as much fun as you can have between two book covers * The Times (on Dead Men’s Trousers) *No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh * Esquire (on Dead Men’s Trousers) *A bold, electric new chapter in the Trainspotting universe… Darkly funny, blisteringly sharp, and emotionally raw, Men in Love is a story about yearning, identity, and whether love can ever truly save us from ourselves * Essential Marbella Magazine *Electrifying * Country & Town House *There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best… it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence… [and] Welsh has not lost his feel for the particular rhythms and textures of addiction * Guardian *Drugs, bad sex, ripe Scottish vernacular… the colloquial vigour of the writing never flags * Mail on Sunday *These characters remain alive on the page, more than 30 years on * Daily Mail *

Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fourteen further novels, including the number one Sunday Times bestseller Dead Men’s Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.