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

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.

Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.

Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last. But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest?

Irvine Welsh’s sequel to his iconic bestseller Trainspotting tells a story of riotous adventures, wild new passions, and young men determined to get the most out of life.
  • 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

Trainspotting
Resolution
The Long Knives
24 Stories
Rave
Dead Men's Trousers
The Blade Artist
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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)

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)

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

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
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