Irvine Welsh: Men in Love

Vintage, 2026, Paperback, 544 pages, 12.9 x 19.8 cm

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh’s exhilarating new novel.

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?