Sick Boy’s warm words of understanding when his son comes out to him as gay aren’t so much because of his open-mindedness as because the boy now won’t be competing with him for “fanny”. However, one thing we've learned throughout the Trainspotting series is that no matter how much someone tries to change, deep down inside they're the same person.

Working-class people seldom get that the wealthy generally eat, sleep and travel well at their expense again, through tax deductables. Danny Murphy (Spud) is the only one still living in Edinburgh and is still an addict, spending his days begging on the street for change.As she fingers an earring, she expresses guilt about them staying in the spare rooms, while I’m in a hotel.

I am eternally grateful to audiobook performer Tam Dean Burn for demonstrating the sound of the dialect, so I can now reproduce it in my head when I'm reading Welsh's abstruse phonetic written interpretation of the various local vernaculars. The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act…until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme—a scheme one of them won’t survive. Una quota del divertimento la si deve al traduttore Massimo Bocchiola che oltre ad essersi inventato un linguaggio, per Welsh ha abolito il congiuntivo.A deprimermi ancora di più con la coscienza esatta di quello che farò per sopportare questo disastro: mi sfonderò di sostanze, e passato l'effetto mi butterò nel lavoro. Since reading Trainspotting, when it came out in 1993, I have read all of Irvine Welsh's books and, to one degree or another, enjoyed them all, so - full disclosure - I came to Dead Men's Trousers as a massive and long time fan of Irvine Welsh's work. Let’s be honest here, we all have a bit of - Begbie, Renton, Sick boy and Spud buried deep inside us. With at least two of the main characters comfortably sorted and sharing a rather saccharine 'happy ever after' ending, is this the end for the Trainspotting cast? He has written thirteen further novels, including Crime and the number one bestseller Dead Men's Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays.