Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irvine Welsh - Credit: Zoe Law* Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 ...

ACADEMICS warmly welcome the release of each thoroughly comprehensive volume in what has become a chronological range of Welsh writing in English to surpass anything that has come before. ACADEMICS ...

The author discusses his writing, the movies it created and his own youth, but not all the interviewees in this documentary are quite so gripping ...

She was nominated for the greatest award in literature, the Nobel Prize, and was considered a contemporary of writers such as Virginia Woolf. But 40 years after her death and despite being described ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is currently enjoying a resurgence of his most famous novel thanks to Danny Boyle's film sequel T2: Trainspotting (which was loosely based on Welsh's follow-up novel ...