Irvine Welsh Boeken

Beschrijving van het dagelijks leven van een heroïne-junkie in de achterbuurten van Edinburgh, de 'AIDS-hoofdstad van Europa'.

*Number #1 Bestseller** BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends - Spud Murphy is laid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime, violence and the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating and moving, Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever. 'Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page' Independent 'Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date' The Times

These two blackly humorous screenplays are both set in Edinburgh. "Trainspotting" is based on Irvine Welch's novel about heroin addicts and the underbelly of Edinburgh life. In "Shallow Grave" three young people discover a dead body and a suitcase full of money in their flat.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

DS Bruce Robertson is planning on kicking his festive season off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam, but it starts off quite badly, with a missing wife, a cocaine habit, a deterioration in his genital health, and a messy murder to solve. By the author of TRAINSPOTTING.

Glue Is The Story Of Four Boys Growing Up In The Edinburgh Schemes, And About The Loyalties, The Experiences - And The Secrets - That Hold Them Together Into Their Thirties. Four Boys Becoming Men: Juice Terry, The Work-Shy Fanny-Merchant, With Corkscrew Curls And Sticky Fingers; Billy The Boxer: Driven, Controlled, Playing To His Strengths; Carl, The Milky Bar Kid, Drifting Along To His Own Soundtrack; And The Doomed Gally - Who Has One Less Skin Than Everyone And Seems To Find Catastrophe At Every Corner. As We Follow Their Lives From The Seventies Into The New Century - From Punk To Techno, From Speed To Es - We Can See Each Of Them Trying To Struggle Out From Under The Weight Of The Conditioning Of Class And Culture, Peer Pressure And Their Parents' Hopes That Maybe Their Sons Will Do Better Than They Did. What Binds The Four Of Them Is The Friendship Formed By The Scheme, Their School, And Their Ambition To Escape From Both; Their Loyalty Fused In Street Morality: Back Up Your Mates, Don'T Hit Women And, Most Importantly, Never Grass On Anyone.

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.