Irvine Welsh is pointing up to the second floor of a grey stone building in Leith, the port district of Edinburgh. As he gets ready to publish a sequel to his 1993 cult novel Trainspotting, the author ...

As he returns with a sequel to his most famous novel, Irvine Welsh reveals why publishers just don't want their authors being ...

Irvine Welsh has released a direct sequel to Trainspotting, more than 30 years after the cult novel’s publication. Men in ...

More than 30 years on from the original, Irvine Welsh reveals why he’s written a new sequel to Trainspotting.

The ‘Trainspotting’ junkies are back, but it’s more than drugs that are eating at them. By Michael O'Sullivan. March 24, 2017 at 1:36 p.m. EDT ...

Trainspotting had its world premiere in Glasgow almost 30 years ago. A defining movie of the 1990s, Trainspotting was set in ...

In "Trainspotting," when Mark Renton explains what it's like to shoot heroin to his friend Tommy, he launches into one of Welsh's irades. "Basically, we live a short, ...

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) emerges triumphantly from his toilet dive in Trainspotting. For die-hard fans of Danny Boyle’s 1996 hit Trainspotting, the just-released sequel, T2 Trainspotting ...

Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) in "T2 Trainspotting." (Courtesy CTMG, Inc.) The iconic opening shot of director Danny ...

After "Trainspotting," McGregor landed roles in another Danny Boyle film, "A Life Less Ordinary" and "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace" playing Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Trainspotting 2, meanwhile, is Trainspotting‘s mirror image, full of insight and clever observations, but instead of ending with the possibility that Renton might go off to live a better life ...

Trainspotting not only reflected the enthusiasm of boomtown Britain, but a Scottish culture self-confident enough to set fire to conventional ways of thinking about national identity.