Raucous, filthy and funny.
James Naughtie
Radio 4 Today Programme
Without question, our most distinguished living exponent of the so- called excremental vision of life - a line that goes back (to pick a few names) via James Joyce, Swift, and Ben Jonson, to Chaucer, writers who have explored what meanings of human ... Read moreexistence are to be found in the toilet bowl.
John Sutherland
The Times
Irvine Welsh, I think it's safe to say, is not a writer who's mellowing with age... Welsh's [language is an] astonishingly supple invention: one that can combine scabrousness and lyricism, comedy and ruefulness in the same paragraph... [if] you fancy an authentic and often thrilling blast of full-strength Irvine Welsh, then you're in for a treat.
James Walton
Spectator
It's a stern reader who wouldn't fall for his filthy charm.
Sunday Telegraph
Whether your interest is piqued by the ridiculously expensive bottles of whiskey and the extraordinary lengths an American will go to own them or your heart strings are pulled by Wee Jonty's anguished love story, there's a multitude of ideas and human emotions that Welsh brings out among the laughter.
Claire Inman
Curious Animal Magazine
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