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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. Raised in the tenement homes of Leith, the prefabs in West Pilton and the maisonettes in Muirhouse, he attended Ainslie Park Secondary School. At sixteen, he left education and took on various jobs, and eventually moved to London in the seventies. There he dabbled with the property market while spending his free time exploring the London punk scene. He then moved back to Edinburgh to study an MBA. Back home, and inspired by the nineties rave scene, he was fortunate enough to run into some fascinating characters whom he immortalised in his diary – and, later, in the pages of Trainspotting. At first dismissed for its unmarketable content, Trainspotting shot Welsh to fame, precipitated further by the release of the film, by Danny Boyle, three years later. Since then he has written eight other works of fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Title:

Dead Men's Trousers

Written by:

Irvine Welsh 

Read by:

Tam Dean Burn 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

13 

Duration:

14 hours 11 minutes 

Published:

March 29 2018 

Available Date:

March 29 2018 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489436962 

Genres:

Fiction; Crime & Thriller 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 49.95

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Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He’s then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he’d been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and – much to Mark’s astonishment – doesn’t seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry – so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn’t really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men’s Trousers?

'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades.'
The Sunday Times

(Praise for Trainspotting) ‘The best book ever written by man or woman … Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible.’
Rebel Inc