Men in Love

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh's blazing new novel.

'Propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure' GQ

It's the late 1980s. Separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.

Sick Boy begins an intense relationship with Amanda - rich, connected, his 'princess'. When the pair set a date for their wedding, he sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.

But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group's dreams or just another doomed quest?

*A Best Summer Read for the New York Times, Guardian, i Paper and Esquire*

'His paciest, funniest, most page-turning book in years' SCOTSMAN

'There's no slacking in either the pace or the energy' FINANCIAL TIMES

'These characters remain alive on the page' DAILY MAIL

'Brilliant' SUNDAY EXPRESS

**PRE-ORDER IRVINE WELSH'S NEXT NOVEL CAN NOTHING SAVE US? NOW**

(Men in Love was a #4 Sunday Times bestseller, July 2025)

Review: Like all his best work, Men in Love is propulsive, hilarious and bittersweet in equal measure, as wise on the curdling of intense teenage friendships as it is on the early, doomed attempts we embark on in our twenties to settle down and fall in love * GQ *
The simple ease and joy with which he [Welsh] reinhabits these vivid characters makes this his paciest, funniest, most page-turning book in years * Scotsman *
These characters remain alive on the page, more than 30 years on * Daily Mail *
There's no slacking in either the pace or the energy of the prose. Chapters alternate the cacophonous voices of the four [Trainspotting crew members]... their words sing off the page... What Welsh does so brilliantly [is] mixing registers and revealing the unsuspected depths in his characters * Financial Times *
Brilliant * Irish Sunday Mirror *
The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment and it had a huge influence on me... It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive -- DOUGLAS STUART, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo (on Trainspotting)
A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event... No living author is as entertaining to read, or as skilled at capturing the ambivalence and beauty of male friendships * GQ, Best Books of 2025 *
Expertly funny and tender * Irish Independent *
The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent * Sunday Times (on Trainspotting) *
So propulsive...about as much fun as you can have between two book covers * The Times (on Dead Men's Trousers) *