Irvine Welsh

El episodio final de la saga Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh se despide a lo grande de los icónicos Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy y Spud.á Estamos en 2015 y los destinos de Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy y Spud vuelven a cruzarse. Es decir: tenemos de nuevo reunido al cuarteto protagonista de Trainspotting en lo que el autor ha anunciado como "el Grand Finale de la saga".Renton es ahora un exitoso representante de DJs que viaja por todo el mundo y se topa en un vuelo transatlantico con Begbie, reconvertido en artista de exito, hombre casado y padre de familia. A los otros dos no les ha ido tan bien en la vida: Sick Boy sigue en lo del negocio de explotacion del cuerpo femenino y Spud es una suerte de mendigo profesionalizado que pide dinero por las calles acompañado de su perro. Las cosas empiezan a complicarse con un turbio asunto de trafico de organos y riñones donados o robados, a lo que se suma un cadaver y la aparicion de algun que otro secundario de lujo como el taxista priapico Terry Lawson, viejo conocido de los lectores fieles de Welsh.Y asi, a un ritmo acelerado que no da tregua, nos deslizaremos por una enloquecida montaña rusa de sexo explicito y a veces grotesco comico, drogas en todo su amplio

Muy pocas veces alguien se atrevió a recomendar tan fervientemente una novela. "Merece vender más ejemplares que la Biblia", afirmó Rebel Inc., una insolente revista literaria escocesa. De inmediato celebrada por los criticos mas estrictos pero leida tambien por aquellos que raramente se acercan a los libros, "Trainspotting" se convirtio en uno de los acontecimientos literarios y tambien extraliterarios de la ultima decada. Fue rapidamente adaptada al teatro y luego llevada a la pantalla por Danny Boyle, uno de los jovenes prodigio del cine ingles. Sus protagonistas son un grupo de jovenes desesperadamente realistas, ni se les ocurre pensar en el futuro: saben que nada o casi nada va a cambiar, habitantes del otro Edimburgo, el que no aparece en los famosos festivales, capital europea del sida y paraiso de la desocupacion, la miseria y la prostitucion, embarcados en una peripecia vital cuyo combustible es la droga, "el elixir que les da la vida, y se la quita". Welsh escribe en el aspero, colorido, vigoroso lenguaje de las calles. Y entre pico y pico, entre borracheras y futbol, sexo y rock and roll, la negra picaresca, la epica astrosa de los que nacieron en el lado duro de la vida, de los que no tienen otra salida que escapar, o amortiguar el dolor de existir con lo primero

Parece que Begbie, el psicópata deTrainspotting,se ha reformado. Pero el asesinato de uno de sus hijos desatará una espiral de violencia.Parece que Begbie, el psicópata deTrainspotting,se ha reformado. Pero el asesinato de uno de sus hijos desatara una espiral de violencia.Begbieel psicopata de aquella pandilla de inadaptados que protagonizabaTrainspottingse ha reformado. Ahora vive en la costa de California, tiene una casa confortable y elegante, una esposa llamada Melanie y dos hijas, un nuevo nombreJim Francisy una nueva profesion: es un escultor, reconocido por sus bustos distorsionados y mutilados de rostros famosos. Pero el pasado siempre vuelve, y, tras un extraño incidente durante un paseo por la playa en el que su familia se ve amenazada por dos tipos, su hermana llama para informar de que Sean, uno de los dos hijos de una relacion previa que dejo en Edimburgo, ha muerto. Mas concretamente: ha sido asesinado.Begbie regresa al hogar, asiste al funeral de un vastago al que apenas conocio y, ante la falta de pistas de la policia, se pone a indagar por su cuenta. Estas andanzas detectivescas propiciaran el reencuentro con viejos conocidos, la destruccion de valiosos cuadros, el incendio de una casa, un reguero de cadaveres y diversas situaciones adrenalinicas de violencia extrema... hasta llegar a una resolucion del caso del todo inesperada para el improvisado investigador. Mientras tanto, Melanieque tambien ha aterrizado en Edimburgo cruzando el Atlanticoempieza a descubrir aspectos de la personalidad de su marido que ignoraba por completo...El autor regresa al submundo deTrainspotting para hablar del pasado que nos persigue tirando de la novela negra en version trepidante y ultraviolenta, con toques de humor feroz a costa del arte contemporaneo. Una nueva entrega del novelista escoces mas desbocado, cafre y vibrante: ¡Irvine Welshon fire!Intensa, excitante... Un libro extremadamente ameno, mezcla de novela enigma, thriller y estudio psicologico de su protagonista, obsesionado con el conflicto, tanto fisico como mental... Una lectura sorprendentemente conmovedora y evocadora. Altamente recomendable (Mr. Hyde).Una sombria novela negra, con un toque a lo James Ellroy... No sorprendera ni a sus fans ni a sus detractores el grafico y brutal tratamiento de la violencia. Pero tambien hay una mirada muy sensible, sobre todo a las divisiones que desgarran a las familias y a las pequeñas mentiras y engaños que salvan las relaciones (Hannah McGill,The Scotsman).Welsh regresa a su mejor salvajismo... Una novela sombria, horripilante y muy divertida (Sam Parker,Esquire).Un oscurisimo placer culpable, con un gran potencial cinematografico (Kate Muir,The Times).Directa, inteligente e hiperacelerada (Orlando Bird,Daily Telegraph).Horripilantemente divertida (Max Davidson,The Mail on Sunday).

Diez años después de Trainspotting, tras divorciarse de su mujer y de fracasar en varios negocios, Sick Boy está en franca decadencia. Decide aceptar la oferta de su tía Paula quien lo dejará a cargo de un pub. Pero ahi el negocio no esta solamente en las bebidas: Sick Boy descubre que un grupo se reune a follar y a filmar sus orgias en uno de los salones privados. Y que en Edimburgo hay un negocio de videos porno realizados en las trastiendas de los pubs. Sick Boy se pondra, ayudado por la guapa Nikki Fuller-Smith, estudiante de cine y trabajadora del sexo, a hacer una pelicula porno de altura. Y tambien incluira en el equipo a su amigo Renton, el que los traiciono y huyo con el dinero del alijo de heroina. Aunque tambien se mueven por ahi Spud, el unico que habia recibido a escondidas su parte en el dinero de la droga, y Begbie, que despues de pasar unos años en la carcel volvera a la accion aun mas paranoico y furioso que antes.NOTAS PARA ISBN:El autor es ingles.

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say hes a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies and, most alarmingly, his former self Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husbands violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel ultra violent but curiously redemptive and it marks the return of one of modern fictions most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client - though she seems more interested in the trainer's body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...In the aggressive, foul-mouthed trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folies a deux in contemporary fiction. Featuring murder, depravity and revenge - and enormous amounts of food and sex - The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time - how we look and where we live - and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.

Lesbian passion, clinical obesity, murder, conjoined twins, and huge servings of food, sex and filthy language: it's the brand-new Irvine Welsh...When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway at night, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though: the 'crazed gunman', Sean McCandless, turns out to be a victim of child sexual abuse and the two men are serial paedophiles. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrols as a client at her Bodysculpt gym. It quickly becomes clear that Lena is more interested in Lucy's body than her own. Then, when one of the paedophiles she allowed to escape carries out a heinous sex attack, Lucy's transition from hero to villain is complete. When Lucy imprisons Lena in her mother's deserted real-estate blocks downtown, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...In the aggressive, drill-sergeant trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folie a deux in contemporary fiction. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time, personal training regimes and real estate - how we look and where we live - and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.

Marked by Irvine Welsh's scabrous humor and raw Scottish vernacular, Skagboys transports us to 1980s Edinburgh, where the Trainspotting crew is just getting started. Mark Renton has it all: the first in his family to attend university, he has a pretty girlfriend and a great social life. But when economic uncertainties and family problems intervene, Rent succumbs to the defeatism--not to mention the drug use--that has taken hold in Edinburgh's tougher quarters. His friends are responding according to personality. Laid off, Spud Murphy is paralyzed in the face of long-term unemployment. Sick Boy, supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, is scamming and hustling for money and drugs. And meanwhile, psycho Franco Begbie is scaring the hell out of everyone. Darkly humorous, Skagboys gives a gritty and gripping portrait of a time, not unlike ours, when money was scarce, unemployment was high, and drugs seemed the answer.

Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, his fiancee Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding.

Many questions are posed, and answered, in these five extraordinary stories: stories that remind us that Irvine Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller, and - arguably - one of

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanising Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.

Presents a collection of stories that reflect the author's vaulting imagination, vernacular ear, dark, scabrous humor and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contempora

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers.

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin' junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin' embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.

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The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns with his own novel.Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say hes a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies and, most alarmingly, his former self Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husbands violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel ultra violent but curiously redemptive and it marks the return of one of modern fictions most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.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.In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...