Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irvine Welsh - Credit: Zoe Law* Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 ...

Part of traveling the world as an Anglophone involves the uncomfortable realization that everyone else is better at learning your language than people like you are at learning theirs. It’s ...

ACADEMICS warmly welcome the release of each thoroughly comprehensive volume in what has become a chronological range of Welsh writing in English to surpass anything that has come before. ACADEMICS ...

She was nominated for the greatest award in literature, the Nobel Prize, and was considered a contemporary of writers such as Virginia Woolf. But 40 years after her death and despite being described ...

Irvine Welsh credited the “verbal culture” of Edinburgh as a major influence on his storytelling at the launch of his new documentary in the city. The Trainspotting author, 64, said his film Choose ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is currently enjoying a resurgence of his most famous novel thanks to Danny Boyle's film sequel T2: Trainspotting (which was loosely based on Welsh's follow-up novel ...