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Trainspotting

Written by: Irvine Welsh
Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn Burn
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Brought to you by Penguin.


Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film.

'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced.
Choose life.

'Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius.' Sunday Times


© Irvine Welsh 1993 (P) Penguin Audio 2007

 Dark Humour Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban World Literature

Critic Reviews

The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me… This book sings and, in the darkest moments, it shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive (DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo)
Abhorrently dark and raw to the core, Trainspotting is an insight into one of life’s many ugly personalities — addiction and the accompanying domino effect of grim inevitabilities… Irvine Welsh’s novel will always be a cult classic.
Welsh’s skill as a storyteller is undeniable, bringing both wit and compassion to a grim subject matter. If you liked Danny Boyle’s film adaptation, you’ll love the original.
Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades
One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force
The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent
An unremitting powerhouse of a novel - Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy
A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular...the stories we hear are retched from the gullet
The Scottish Celine
All stars
Most relevant
I bought the audiobook because the book is completely in Scottish and very hard to read. The narrator has done an amazing joab, his method of narrating centers around modulating his accent to those of the character. A couple of hours in, you can tell which character is speaking just from Dean's voice.

The stories are funny, daunting and intense. If one chapter makes you hold your own breath to the point where you can't even read what's written because of how gory it is, the other will be so funny that you'll read it again and again hoping to relive it like it's a first time read.

Overall I love the book, I love the ride and I love the characters. I recommend everybody to read/hear it at least once.

Incredible Ride

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