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Author Irvine Welsh discusses his book Men in Love, the latest sequel to Trainspotting, in conversation with Miranda Sawyer.

The fifth book to feature the characters first presented in Trainspotting – Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie – Men in Love offers an immediate sequel to Welsh’s debut novel. As the 1980s move into the 1990s, the quartet leave heroin behind and instead seek joy in the emerging rave culture on a journey through Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris.

In this conversation – which took place here at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in July 2025 – Welsh and Sawyer talk about the creative process and inspirations behind his latest book. And as they do they touch on love as a universal positive, Welsh being ‘the worst franchise builder in the world’, the idolisation of billionaires without consequences, and how so many of us make some of our biggest life choices and decisions at an age when in reality we ’know absolutely f*** all’.

This recording also includes Welsh giving a live reading from Men in Love and answering questions about the book, its characters and his broader work, from the audience

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