Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is the final chapter in the Trainspotting story.
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.
Welsh is on compulsively readable, searingly funny form in what has
been billed as the final Trainspotting novel… What I really like
about Welsh’s storytelling is that he makes these amoral
misadventures so propulsive, so joyfully awful, that you have to go
with the flow… this roués’ romp is about as much fun as you can
have between two book covers.
*The Times*
Dead Men’s Trousers is Welsh at his scabrous, foul-mouthed best as
the Trainspotting crew of
Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud are reunited in a high-velocity
tale of drug dealing,
prostitution and the Hollywood art scene – with the odd compulsory
organ donation casually
tossed in with sadistic aplomb.
*Sunday Times*
Some things never change. Violence lurks beneath the surface.
Football still resonates. And, best of all, the Scots dialect
retains its colloquial zing. Welsh fans are in for another witty,
scabrous treat.
*Mail on Sunday **Best New Fiction***
Irresistible... No one captures the competing affections and
resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh, and the
original lads – Sick Boy and Spud in particular – still bring out
the best in him... keeping you gripped and choking on bursts of
shocked laughter.
*Esquire*
A vignette-like study of modern masculinity… This final book in
Welsh’s self-described “Harry Potter franchise” is as much
character study as social commentary, and a sympathetic observation
about how growing older doesn’t necessarily mean growing wiser.
*Financial Times*
Blackly funny... It’s ultimately a mark of Welsh’s magic in having
created such memorable characters.
*Observer*
Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud are back in this wildly farcical
story of revenge, sentimentality and psychedelic drugs... a
whooping last hurrah (possibly) for the Trainspotting gang... very
funny.
*Guardian*
Crackling with energy and verve, it’s all brilliant fun... But the
onset of middle age, and a shocking death add poignancy to [Dead
Men’s Trousers].
*Sunday Mirror*
Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a
spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.
*No.1*
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