Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
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The book: comprehensive, hugely informative, ground-breaking, very read-able, the only serious commentary, analysis and introduction to Trainspotting the book, the play and the film. EXCERPTS AND REVIEWS >>
From the Blog
Writings of Leith
A centenary only comes along when you haven't had time to get ready for it. Didn't see it coming. That wasn't the reason for missing the centenary of the amalgamation of municipal Leith with municipal Edinburgh in 2020. The centenary was in 2020, you understand....
read moreThe state of Scotland as 2022 dawns
Scotland – the state of play on the cusp of 2022 What State? We’re in a poor state. The SNP, always wanting to say things would be better in an “independent” Scotland and in government unbroken since 2007, has no interest in making devolution work well. Beyond its...
read moreLeith: HQ of the Trainspotting Phenomenon
It was Harry Gibson (the play) and Danny Boyle (the film) who took the Trainspotting story away from Leith. Irvine Welsh's focus was on the collapse of the community of Leith - the demolitions, the dispersals, the diaspora - into which heroin and HIV were added...
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