“Trainspotting” writer Irvine Welsh and “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis are in final talks with the U.K.’s Burning Wheel Productions to co-create a dramatized series based on the national ...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Authors Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh are teaming up to co-create the press satire series 'American Tabloid.' By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent With the working title American Tabloid, the series ...

The eternal author of 'Trainspotting' publishes 'The Long Knives', a sharp and hallucinatory novel about revenge, starring the tormented inspector Ray Lennox, which immerses us in the worst abysses of ...

The kind of motivational speaker you prayed to materialize in your high school auditorium, Irvine Welsh wanders the tiny stage of Carrboro’s Dirty South Improv (DSI) before a hormonal house of mostly ...

The gang is back - Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud - the scheming, drunken, brawling, stealing, spaced-out, hooked and pill-popping "Trainspotting" crew of Scots we first met in Irvine Welsh's 1993 ...

Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is best known for his slang-laced tales of existential debauchery in the damp, booze-soaked climes of his native Edinburgh (the most famous of those being Trainspotting).

Irvine Welsh has said while he appreciates Edinburgh’s festival culture he is more excited to see his team Hibernian taking part in European competition this summer. The 66-year-old Trainspotting ...

Sixteen years after "Trainspotting" pushed Scottish author Irvine Welsh, helmer Danny Boyle and star Ewan McGregor into the international spotlight, feature debutant Rob Heydon tries for similar ...

EXCLUSIVE: You wait years for one bus, and then two come along at the same time. That’s the phrase Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh used when reflecting on how two of his first-ever TV projects got ...

EXCLUSIVE: Two major figures from the literary world – Bret Easton Ellis and Irvine Welsh – are getting together to create a scripted podcast. Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, and ...

The gang is back - Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud - the scheming, drunken, brawling, stealing, spaced-out, hooked and pill-popping "Trainspotting" crew of Scots we first met in Irvine Welsh's 1993 ...