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Trainspotting

The Trainspotting Novels (Book 2)

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Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film.

'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc

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.

'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius.' Sunday Times


© Irvine Welsh 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2007

Critics Review

The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me… This book sings and, in the darkest moments, it shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive
DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo
Abhorrently dark and raw to the core, Trainspotting is an insight into one of life’s many ugly personalities — addiction and the accompanying domino effect of grim inevitabilities… Irvine Welsh’s novel will always be a cult classic.
Culture Trip
Welsh’s skill as a storyteller is undeniable, bringing both wit and compassion to a grim subject matter. If you liked Danny Boyle’s film adaptation, you’ll love the original.
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Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades
Sunday Times
One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force
Times Literary Supplement
The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent
Sunday Times
An unremitting powerhouse of a novel - Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy
The Herald
A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular...the stories we hear are retched from the gullet
Scotland on Sunday
The Scottish Celine
Guardian
Author Irvine Welsh
Narrator Tam Dean Burn Burn
Series The Trainspotting Novels
Duration 12 hours and 1 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781448159550
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre ‘Street’ fiction, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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