FICTION
Released: Sept. 17, 2012
"Red meat for Welsh cultists, but a heavy load for anybody else."
Once more into the ditch: Welsh revisits the economically depressed, heroin-sick slums of Edinburgh in this hefty prequel to
Trainspotting (1993).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2009
"The stories are dated, true, but even Welsh's leftovers still have enough whiplash to leave a mark."
A blast from the past: eight doses of Scotsploitation and ultraviolence from Welsh's poisonous pen (
Crime, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2008
"A good man in a very bad world, Lennox deserves a thematically richer novel."
Dime-store psychology and half-baked moralizing undermine this character-driven police procedural.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2007
"Jane Austen might have laughed at Welsh behind her parasol, but wouldn't have let him into the parlor. Readers who are getting tired of the same old shite may likewise be getting ready to show him the door."
The Scottish provocateur best-known for his ebulliently racy novels (
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, 2007, etc.) is at it again, in a new collection of four stories and a short novel.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2006
"Something new from the antic provocateur whose recent books have been frustratingly uneven. Welsh's best since his spectacular debut novel Trainspotting."
The dangerous symbiotic relationship embracing two profoundly different protagonists forms the core of Scottish-born Welsh's seventh novel.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2002
"Flush with bile, bitter humor, drugs, and sex: a fun few hundred pages spent with the worst that humanity has to offer."
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2001
"A treat for aficionados of local color and connoisseurs of street life and violence. And nearly 500 pages for everyone."
Welsh's eight-volume novel (
Filth, 1999;
Ecstasy, 1996, etc.) is a windy exposition lasting two decades and detailing the lives of four Scottish pals who sustain a long friendship.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1998
"One wonders if he has written himself out."
The third and most willfully irreverent novel yet from Scotland's answer to William Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr., and, arguably, Howard Stern.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 28, 1996
FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 1996
"Magical, without a hint of cloying sentiment. (First serial to Grand Street)"
Welsh, Scotland's brightest young literary rebel (The Acid House, stories, p. 181), weighs in with a technically dazzling and emotionally wrenching portrait of working-class youth wasted in an emotional vacuum.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 1995
"Welsh often settles for shock value, sleazy sex, and heroin chic, but he's actually a better writer than many who've been here before, especially Burroughs and his epigones."
A collection of 21 stories and one novella—Welsh's second book, but his first published stateside—that will inevitably be compared to last year's Booker winner, James Kelman.
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