Men in Love
The Sunday Times bestselling Trainspotting sequel
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh’s blazing new novel.
‘Propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure’ GQ
It’s the late 1980s. Separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.
Sick Boy begins an intense relationship with Amanda – rich, connected, his ‘princess’. When the pair set a date for their wedding, he sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.
But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest?
*A Best Summer Read for the New York Times, Guardian, i Paper and Esquire*
‘His paciest, funniest, most page-turning book in years’ SCOTSMAN
‘There’s no slacking in either the pace or the energy’ FINANCIAL TIMES
‘These characters remain alive on the page’ DAILY MAIL
‘Brilliant’ SUNDAY EXPRESS
**PRE-ORDER IRVINE WELSH’S NEXT NOVEL CAN NOTHING SAVE US? NOW**
(Men in Love was a #4 Sunday Times bestseller, July 2025)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The boys from Leith stumble through new love and attempt sobriety in this inspired sequel to Welsh's 1993 novel Trainspotting. It picks up with recovering heroin addict and thief Mark Renton hiding in Amsterdam in the late 1980s and trying to figure out how to use the money he's stolen from his friends—Francis Begbie, Sick Boy, and Spud—to start a normal life. Sick Boy is still in London, taking film courses at a local community college and attending drug recovery meetings to pick up women and recruit them into the porn industry. Spud remains a ne'er-do-well, shacked up with Sick Boy's ex, Ali, in Scotland but unable to provide for her and slipping back into addiction. Begbie remains beholden to his ultraviolent nature, especially in the face of the unwelcome news that his girlfriend is expecting their second child, which causes him to beat up strangers on the street. The prose is as dynamic as ever (Begbie is "not so much a Jeykll and Hyde personality as a Hyde squared one"), and Welsh cannily associates the four with the Romantic poets, suggesting an artistic and philosophical link between his sneering punk outsiders and the convention-bucking William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Edgar Allan Poe. Welsh's characters prove vital after 33 years.
