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Irvine Welsh plans Trainspotting prequel
Trainspotting Prequel Coming
His debut novel exposed the drink and drug-addled underbelly of 1980s Edinburgh, recounting the gruesome exploits of junkies and psychotic alcoholics. Now, 15 years on, Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is to write a prequel to his best-seller.
The new novella by the Edinburgh-born writer, which is expected to be published next year, will chart the decline of Trainspotting’s main characters such as Mark Renton and Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson from “daft young guys” to the debauched heroin addicts portrayed by Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller in the 1996 film adaptation.
Like Trainspotting, which was published in 1993, the new book will be set in Edinburgh’s Leith district, the centre of the 1980s Scottish heroin scene, and in London. [Times Online]
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