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Irvine Welsh
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Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 (7pm)
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Drugs! Sex! More drugs! It's been well over a decade since Trainspotting worked its insidious way into mischievous hearts and minds the world over. It was enough to infuriate Bob Dole and give Britain's booming "chemical culture" its bona fide scribe: Irvine Welsh. In subsequent novels, such as Filth, Glue, and Porno, Welsh addressed the titular concerns while revisiting deeper themes of friendship and loyalty amid housing crises and cultural uncertainty in working-class Scotland. These undercurrents are readily apparent once you get used to the narrative trickery and unforgivingly transliterated Scottish dialects. After dabbling as a playwright and film director, Welsh now returns with Crime, a new novel about, well, breaking the law.
