Men in Love

Irvine Welsh author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Publishing:24th Jul '25

£20.00

This title is due to be published on 24th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Men in Love cover

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 *

There wasn’t an album they wouldn’t buy, or a drug they wouldn’t try.
Then it spiralled out of control . . .
They were left with nothing.
Nothing but the eternal quest of all men: the search for love.

Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey.

Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day.

But is falling in love the answer, 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

The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me… It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive -- DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo (on Trainspotting)
The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent * Sunday Times (on Trainspotting) *
So propulsive...about as much fun as you can have between two book covers * The Times (on Dead Men's Trousers) *
No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh * Esquire (on Dead Men's Trousers) *

ISBN: 9781787335752

Dimensions: 240mm x 156mm x 40mm

Weight: 750g

544 pages