Men in Love

* A Guardian and Standard 'Book to Look Out For' 2025 *

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?

*****

PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:

'The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive'
DOUGLAS STUART

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

'The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent'
SUNDAY TIMES