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The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns with his own novel.Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say hes a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies and, most alarmingly, his former self Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husbands violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel ultra violent but curiously redemptive and it marks the return of one of modern fictions most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, Juice Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane Bawbag?Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... A DECENT RIDE?A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, Juice Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

The prequel to one of the most famous British novels of the late twentieth-century.Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a place at university. But there's no room for him in the 1980s. Thatcher's government is destroying working-class communities across Britain, and the post-war certainties of full employment, educational opportunity and a welfare state are gone. When his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control and he succumbs to the defeatism which has taken hold in Edinburgh's grimmer areas. The way out is heroin.It's no better for his friends. Spud Murphy is paid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence feels himself being sucked into a life of petty crime and violence - the worlds of the thieving Matty Connell and psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy, the supreme manipulator of the opposite sex, seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all.

"In "Rattlesnakes" three young Americans are lost in the desert, when one suffers a snakebite to his genitals. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in "The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park." In "Miss Arizona" a down-and-out director finds inspiration in the wife of a late indie director. The novella, "The Kingdom of Fife," brings us to Scottish turf with dog fighting, a gangster father, a decapitated head, and being good at what we Yanks call foosball. And, in the title story, an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid's weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging Spanish killers."--BOOK JACKET.

Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favourite ex-aerated-water-salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson. In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer: driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally - who has one less skin than everyone and seems to find catastrophe at every corner. As we follow their lives from the seventies into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone.

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name.

El sargento Robertson es un policía corrupto, violento, sexista y racista, un consumidor compulsivo de pornografía, alcohol y cocaína, que practica con una de sus amantes peligrosos juegos eróticos que incluyen la asfixia y es capaz de inducir a una menor a que le haga una felacion. Debido a sus excesos, a Robertson le ha aparecido un sarpullido en los genitales y un parasito en el intestino, que se convierte en la voz de su conciencia&

Irvine Weish, el autor de Trainspotting, prefiere hablar de sí mismo como de un "activista cultural" antes que escritor. Y los críticos de la revista ID, que suelen ser árbitros mu

Diez años después de Trainspotting, tras divorciarse de su mujer y de fracasar en varios negocios que iban de lo incierto a lo dudoso, Sick Boy está en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en un barrio pijo de Londres y se ha mudado a un agujero miserable en una zona degradada, y tras una noche de drogas y sexo indiscriminados, decide aceptar la oferta de su tía Paula: lo dejará a cargo de su pub en Leith y se marchará con su amante español a Alicante. Pero en el Port Sunshine el negocio no está solamente en las bebidas: Sick Boy descubre que un grupo liderado por «Juice» Terry Lawson, su antiguo conocido, se reúne a follar y a filmar sus orgías en uno de los salones privados. Y que en Edimburgo hay un floreciente negocio de vídeos porno realizados en las trastiendas de los pubs, con los clientes como estrellas. Y Sick Boy, que siempre está maquinando negocios, se pondrá con la ayuda de la guapa Nikki Fuller-Smith, estudiante de cine de día y trabajadora del sexo por las noches, a hacer una película porno de altura, con calidad suficiente como para ser vendida internacionalmente, y circular por Internet. Y también incluirá en el equipo a su viejo amigo Renton, el que diez años antes los traicionó y huyó a Amsterdam con el dinero del alijo de heroína. Pero cuando Sick Boy maquina algo, la cosa tiene más complicaciones y trampas que la tela de una araña, y entre los hilos también se mueven Spud, el único que había recibido a escondidas su parte en el dinero de la droga, y Begbie, el psicópata del grupo, que después de pasar unos años en la cárcel volverá a la acción aún más paranoico y furioso que antes.

1970: Terry, Cari, Billy y Andrew son niños y viven en el mismo cochambroso suburbio de Edimburgo cuando se conocen en los bancos del colegio. 1980: Diez años más tarde reencontramos a los cuatro amigos, ahora ya adolescentes, en el mismo escenario miserable, haciendo novillos en el instituto, consumiendo drogas detodo tipo y convirtiéndose en protagonistas de pequeños episodios de la usual violencia metropolitana: borracheras agresivas, encontronazos con los hooligans, salvajes correrías nocturnas y las primeras experiencias torpes y violentas con el sexo. 1990: Los amigos han crecido pero no por ello han renunciado a sus malascostumbres; y, para tomarse unas vacaciones alcohólicas, tóxicas y liberadoras de sus respectivos «compromisos» profesionales -Billy ha pasado del boxeo de aficionados a la carrera profesional, Cari es disc-jockey y tiene un grupo de música, Terry vive del subsidio del paro, que redondea con el botín que obtiene desvalijando algunos pisos, y Andy está de vuelta de un matrimonio fallido, fichado por la policía y ahora dramáticamente a la deriva- parten para un reencuentro a lo grande con destino a la Oktoberfest de Munich. Por fin, al alba del nuevo siglo, reencontramos a los cuatro viejos amigos, ahora ya distanciados, lejos los unosde los otros física y mentalmente. Cari, DJ de éxito, se encuentra en alguna parte de Australia, ni él sabe exactamente dónde. Terry, antaño máquina sexual, está irreconocible, hinchado, gordo y calvo. Billy ha colgado los guantes, ha abierto un club y se da aires de empresario. Y Andy ya no está. Se mató una tarde tirándose de un puente. Justo cuando el vínculo de aquella sólida amistad parece roto para siempre, una llamada telefónica, la que reclama a Cari a Edimburgo al lecho de muerte de su padre, les hace reencontrarse para un ajuste de cuentas inevitable y, a su manera, catártico.

Tras su espectacular, escandaloso, perturbador debut con Trainspotting, . una gran novela que ha trascendido sus límites y se ha convertido en un fenómeno mediático i

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers.