Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Irvine Welsh credited the “verbal culture” of Edinburgh as a major influence on his storytelling at the launch of his new documentary in the city. The Trainspotting author, 64, said his film Choose ...

In the sort of bracingly forthright diatribe we rarely hear on this side of the pond, the Welsh writer Julian Ruck has slugged his country’s literary establishment right in its ink-stained face, ...

ACADEMICS warmly welcome the release of each thoroughly comprehensive volume in what has become a chronological range of Welsh writing in English to surpass anything that has come before. ACADEMICS ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is penning a TV drama about the true-life story of two Manchester brothers who built a fashion empire on the back of the city's acid house scene. The novelist has ...

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