Trainspotting

One of the most significant writers in Britain. He writes with style, imagination, wit and force

Times Literary Supplement

As clever as Alasdair Gray, as elegant as Jeff Torrington, as passionate as James Kelman, Welsh has got it all

The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent

Sunday Times

An unremitting powerhouse of a novel - Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy

The Herald

A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular...the stories we hear are retched from the gullet

Scotland on Sunday

This marvellous novel might feel like a bad day in Bedlam, but boy is it exhilarating

The Scottish Celine

Guardian

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

Sunday Times