by tim_bell | Dec 13, 2013 | Latest News
In Edinburgh for the festivities? Up in Edinburgh they call you to the so-called ‘underground’ tours, by which they mean you guddle about in the cellars of the Old Town. We mean something different by ‘underground’ in Leith. Full of references...
by tim_bell | Dec 13, 2013 | Latest News
Spud stirred restlessly in his bed. It wasn’t the first Christmas Eve he had spent in a hostel. It seemed crazy, but that damn street light just outside his window was brighter than usual. The wee parcel that had been brought in by a stranger and left at the front...
by tim_bell | Nov 29, 2013 | Latest News
So Irvine Welsh has written a short story for the Christmas edition of The Big Issue, the monthly magazine of a charity that supports homeless folk. Good on him – it’s one of several worthy causes Welsh has supported over the years. But we should worry....
by tim_bell | Nov 29, 2013 | Latest News
Another plaudit comes Welsh’s way. In a Scottish Book Trust poll Trainspotting has just been voted the favourite Scottish novel of the last half-century. Congratulations are in order. Can’t argue with a popular vote. But Welsh is right to raise doubts...
by tim_bell | Oct 31, 2013 | Latest News
The lately lamented Lou Reed is the songster of Perfect Day, on which Trainspotting the film pivots: it ruins the film and it makes it, depends how you are reading it. To play Perfect Day when a young man is in a dangerous overdose is perverse and cruel. That’s...
