Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker whose work almost always takes place in his native Scotland. His 1993 debut novel Trainspotting, about a group of friends caught in heroin addiction and unemployment in Edinburgh, is the book he is best known for, and its film adaptation shares the title. Other books on the shelf include Filth, Glue, Porno, Marabou Stork Nightmares and the short story collection The Acid House, and Welsh has also written plays and screenplays and directed several short films.
