Men In Love

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller.

* A Guardian and Standard ‘Book to Look Out For’ 2025 *

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.

Leaving heroin behind and 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 starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy 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?

PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:

‘The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive’ DOUGLAS STUART

‘So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers’ THE TIMES

‘The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent’ SUNDAY TIMES

Product details

• Authors: Author 167724, Irvine Welsh, Welsh Irvine
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781787335769
• ISBN: 978-1-78733-576-9
• No. of pages: 531
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, FICTION / Literary, Scotland, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, FICTION / World Literature / Scotland / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION / Humorous / Dark Humor