Men In Love
By Irvine Welsh
2025
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There wasn’t an album they wouldn’t buy, or a drug they wouldn’t try. Then it spiralled out of control . . . They were left with nothing. Nothing but the eternal quest of all the search for love. Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a fresh quest – the search for love. Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and find joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected Sick Boy’s wedding day.
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Irvine Welsh
Author · 33 books
Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. All of his novels are set in his native Scotland and filled with anti-heroes, small time crooks and hooligans. Welsh manages, however to imbue these characters with a sad humanity that makes them likable despite their obvious scumbaggerry. Irvine Welsh is also known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect, making his prose challenging for the average reader unfamiliar with this style.
