Men In Love

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)

No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh

Esquire (on Dead Men's Trousers)

So propulsive...about as much fun as you can have between two book covers

The Times (on Dead Men's Trousers)

A bold, electric new chapter in the Trainspotting universe… Darkly funny, blisteringly sharp, and emotionally raw, Men in Love is a story about yearning, identity, and whether love can ever truly save us from ourselves

Essential Marbella Magazine

Electrifying

Country & Town House

The Trainspotting boys grow up… There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best, impertinent and loose and attuned to the poetic cadence of everyday speech. When his writing hits these heights…it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence

Guardian

Drugs, bad sex, ripe Scottish vernacular… the colloquial vigour of the writing never flags

Mail on Sunday

These characters remain alive on the page, more than 30 years on

Daily Mail

The simple ease and joy with which he [Welsh] reinhabits these vivid characters makes this his paciest, funniest, most page-turning book in years

Scotsman

Like all his best work, Men in Love is propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure, as wise on the curdling of intense teenage friendships as it is on the early, doomed attempts we embark on in our twenties to settle down and fall in love

GQ

Brilliant

Irish Sunday Mirror

There’s no slacking in either the pace or the energy of the prose. Chapters alternate the cacophonous voices of the four [Trainspotting crew members]… their words sing off the page… What Welsh does so brilliantly [is] mixing registers and revealing the unsuspected depths in his characters

Financial Times

A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event… No living author is as entertaining to read, or as skilled at capturing the ambivalence and beauty of male friendships

GQ, Best Books of 2025

Expertly funny and tender

Irish Independent

Irvine Welsh is back

Shortlist, Best Summer Reads

Men in Love takes you on a dark journey from the late-80s and beyond

i Paper, 14 Best Summer Reads

The lads are feeling their way into the future, still themselves, still drawn to violence and addiction

Evening Standard, The Big Read