Readings from Trainspotting two

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Trainspotting, with its eyebrow-raising content and black humour, took us on a journey through Edinburgh's dark underside.

Irvine Welsh enjoyed great success with the novel and its film adaptation - and his new novel Porno has been equally well-received by critics.

Welsh reads from and discusses his new work, which revisits the Trainspotting crew - in particular Sick Boy - ten years on. After a spell in London, he's penniless and back in Edinburgh with a drugs habit to support, a low-rent porno film to be made, and a girl to exploit.

  • Irvine Welsh: Fresh Fictions, Thur 19 Sep, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, SE1 (020-7960 4242).

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