Look, Listen & Learn

Choose Life: Irvine Welsh (2014)

Edinburgh king of grimy dialogue and narrative Irvine Welsh, whose debut novel Trainspotting was made into a movie of the same name, talks about his taste for trangression and darkness with broadcaster Noelle McCarthy. Prepare to be rivetted by one of the genre’s finest, whose latest and ninth novel, The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, is “swampy Floridian lesbian noir”, according to its author.