Book Title:Dead Men’s Trousers ISBN-13:9781787330771 Author:Irvine Welsh Publisher:Jonathan Cape Guideline Price:£16.99Irvine Welsh has spent the last 25 years exhausting an initially vital creation. Begbie, Sick Boy, Renton, Spud – these were characters whose complex and rebarbative sensibilities were captured with an energy near impossible to escape. Skagboys (2012), a prequel to Welsh’s debut, traced Renton and Sick Boy’s inaugural descent into heroin addiction. Sick Boy is a sex-obsessed cynic and misogynist who lives in London and runs an escort agency called Colleagues. Sick Boy wants to exact revenge on Renton.

Source: The Irish Times March 31, 2018 05:15 UTC