Why you must read Irvine Welsh

Because anyone who says: "We human beings are programmed to failure. We're somehow tuned to make terrible life decisions and that fascinates me" deserves our love and attention.

Because anyone who says: "We human beings are programmed to failure. We're somehow tuned to make terrible life decisions and that fascinates me" deserves our love and attention.

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If in Trainspotting, the Scottish writer marked his spot by writing about a drink'n'drugs-ridden gritty Edinburgh netherland, then the forthcoming prequel of that landmark 1993 novel — from which he read out a portion on sex with the disabled in Jaipur — will shake us up from literary and existential torpor.