Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller
There wasn’t an album they wouldn’t buy, or a drug they wouldn’t try.
Then it spiralled out of control . . .
They were left with nothing.
Nothing but the eternal quest of all men- the search for love.
Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, Men In Love reunites the Trainspotting crew for a riotous new journey.
Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event- Sick Boy’s wedding day.
But is falling in love the answer, or just another doomed quest?
Review: 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)
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) *
No one captures the competing affections and resentments that underpin lifelong friendships like Welsh * Esquire (on Dead Men’s Trousers) *
A bold, electric new chapter in the Trainspotting universe… Darkly funny, blisteringly sharp, and emotionally raw, Men in Love is a story about yearning, identity, and whether love can ever truly save us from ourselves * Essential Marbella Magazine *
Electrifying * Country & Town House *
There are plenty of moments that showcase Welsh at his best… it is hard not to be charmed by its flair and insolence… [and] Welsh has not lost his feel for the particular rhythms and textures of addiction * Guardian *
Format: Paperback
Pages: 544
Imprint: Jonathan Cape UK
Publication date: 22/07/2025
Series: Mark Renton v6
