Men In Love
  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335769
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $34.99

Men In Love

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22 Jul 2025
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24 Jul 2025
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24 Jul 2025
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24 Aug 2025
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Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller

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?
  • Published: 22 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787335769
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $34.99
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Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Also by Irvine Welsh

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The Long Knives
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Praise for 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)