What's your favourite Scottish novel? Is it one of these?
The broadcaster is putting 30 books chosen by an expert panel to a public vote to find Scotland’s favourite book. Let us know what you make of the selectionWalter Scott’s Rob Roy is up against Muriel...
View ArticleMoira Knox obituary
Scottish Conservative councillor and moral campaigner who took on the ‘depravity’ of the Edinburgh fringe festivalMoira Knox, who has died aged 85, was a Conservative councillor who gave her name to an...
View ArticleTrainspotting review – Renton and co return to the stage with raw power
Citizens theatre, GlasgowHarry Gibson’s adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel about urban alienation speaks as loudly, scabrously and irreverently as everThey used to call it “the Aids capital of Europe”....
View ArticleIrvine Welsh adapting bestselling novel Crime for television
Story of Edinburgh detective will be first book by the Scottish writer to be made into a TV drama The author of Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh, is adapting his novel Crime for television. The story of a...
View ArticleLewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song voted Scotland's favourite novel
The 1932 elegy to crofting sees off contemporary stars including Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh and JK Rowling to top BBC pollLewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic novel Sunset Song has been voted Scotland’s...
View ArticleNew Trainspotting sequel trailer released
T2 reunites the surviving four characters from Danny Boyle’s 1996 film and looks at what has happened to them 20 years on•Five things we learned from the T2 trailerA new trailer for Danny Boyle’s...
View ArticleT2: Trainspotting - full trailer for the sequel to the 1996 hit – video
For one of the most anticipated British films of recent years, director Danny Boyle reunites the key members of the original cast for the sequel to Trainspotting, 21 years after its release. Ewan...
View ArticleFive things we learned from the first full trailer for T2: Trainspotting
Do the drugs still work – if so, which ones? Hooray, Kelly Macdonald is still in it, Begbie is, thankfully, still angry and who’s not been using moisturiser?American audiences were so confused by the...
View ArticleStephen King attacks Bob Dylan's Nobel prize knockers
Guitar-playing horror legend speaks out against literary authors such as Gary Shteyngart and Irvine Welsh who have scorned the singer’s award Stephen King has come to the defence of Bob Dylan’s Nobel...
View ArticleIrvine Welsh: ‘If I don’t have sex every day, I start to go a bit weird’
The author on addiction, wrinkles, ‘big snogs’ and his toy rabbit BunnyBorn in Edinburgh, Irvine Welsh was working for the council and studying for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University when he wrote...
View ArticleThis year's biggest book adaptations – and which ones are worth reading first
From Margaret Atwood to Stephen King, a host of great authors will see work adapted for film and TV this year. Here’s our guide to which to read before you watchThanks to Hollywood’s baffling inability...
View ArticleRobert Carlyle: 'I took out two teeth and suddenly Begbie came back to life'
The return of Trainspotting’s psychotic antihero in sequel T2 has reignited old friendships for Robert Carlyle. He talks pushing buttons, Brexit blues and the benefits of getting olderThe unmissable...
View ArticleThe former heroin addict helping to direct Trainspotting 2
Garry Fraser survived the drugs and violence of an Edinburgh housing estate, so he knew exactly how to portray the brutal landscape in the movieIn 1996, Trainspotting, Danny Boyle’s seminal junkie...
View ArticleRobert Carlyle: Trainspotting 3 could be on the way
Talking at the Edinburgh premiere of T2 Trainspotting, the actor revealed that he’d been in talks about continuing his character Begbie’s storyRobert Carlyle has suggested a third Trainspotting film...
View Article‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting...
Renton’s original rant has been repurposed so many times that even George Osborne has parodied it. Can the new film’s update ever be more than a middle-aged delusion?Twenty-one years ago, Ewan...
View ArticleT2 Trainspotting: discuss Danny Boyle's sequel with spoilers
Choose a follow-up? What did you think of the soundtrack, the transformations and the exploits of the re-formed cast of characters, 20 years after the original? This article contains spoilers.Has it...
View Article'Forget Miami, Edinburgh has the best beach': Irvine Welsh and others on...
From solitary dips to teenage trysts, Irvine Welsh, Sebastian Barry, Kamila Shamsie, Cerys Matthews and Emma Jane Unsworth tell the stories behind the beaches they loveI’m very fortunate to reside in...
View ArticlePerformers/Creatives reviews – Irvine Welsh's two plays are exercises in tedium
Assembly Rooms; Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHad they not had Welsh’s name attached, these tired, clumsy and slackly directed works would surely never have seen the light of dayNot so much theatre...
View ArticleIrvine Welsh: ‘The white male rage of Begbie is in the culture today’
The Trainspotting author, 58, on the destruction of masculinity, loving Iggy Pop and the terror of hangoversMy first memory is saying goodnight to my toys. One was a rabbit called Bunny that had no...
View ArticleKelly Macdonald: ‘People were still drunk on the Trainspotting set’
The actor, 41, on cowboy boots, childbearing, self-sufficiency and being bullied at school for not swearingWhen I started acting I knew nothing. It was a momentous decision to pick up the flyer for the...
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