title: Trainspotting
author:  Irvine Welsh 
description: Irvine Welsh is the best-selling author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Skagboys, and, most recently, A Decent Ride. He currently lives in Chicago. T2 Trainspotting was first published as Porno.
zlib_text: **Irvine Welsh**
  
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  **Trainspotting**
  
  **IRVINE WELSH** works, rests and raves in Edinburgh. He has had a variety of
  occupations too numerous and too tedious to recount. Trainspotting was his
  first novel and he has also published a collection of short stories, a novella
  entitled The Acid House and a second novel, Marabou Stork Nightmares.
  
  **IRVINE WELSH**
  
  **TRAINSPOTTING**
  
  **Minerva**
  
  Thanks to the following: Lesley Bryce, David Crystal, Margaret Fulton–Cook,
  janice Galloway, Dave Harrold, Duncan McLean, Kenny McMillan, Sandy Macnair,
  David Millar, Robin Robertson, Julie Smith, Angela Sullivan, Dave Todd, Hamish
  Whyte, Kevin Williamson.
  
  Versions of the following stories have appeared in other publications: 'The
  First Day Of The Edinburgh Festival' in Scream If You Want To Go Faster: New
  Writing Scotland 9 (ASLS),
  
  'Traditional Sunday Breakfast'in DOG (Dec, 1991), 'It Goes Without Saying' in
  West Coast Magazine No. 11, 'Trainspotting at Leith Central Station' in A
  Parcel of Rog