Irvine Welsh

You get knocked down, you get up again, it ain’t never gonna keep you down…’

Amen to that x

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 999:
It’s not just the story that matters, it’s the person telling it. Your stories are filtered through your experience, your culture, your upbringing, your identity. Don’t be afraid to let it show. Those things matter. You matter.

Pleasure was mine mate. Good to meet you there.

No way. From the High Street up North Hill, across the River and over two roundabouts to North Station road is a good 20 minute hike uphill.

Isle of Man. Bastards made me get out at Blackpool and swim.

English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh towns where the main railway station is annoyingly a little trek from the town centre. #Dunfermline #Cheltenham #Colchester.

Any more?

#MenInLove #ChooseLove

'We'll play some more soon' is a truly sinister line.

You don’t use subtext. If you have a subconscious imagination it uses you.

30.09.25. 32 new books added to the official list of those “harmful to national interests” – Belarus. Banned Books

Scotland 2 Book Banners 1.

Disappointed they banned Marabou Stork Nightmares. If they understood the concept of subtext they would see it was broadly supportive of current regime.

“We care about your privacy.”

Yet this notice is an acknowledgment that they’ve just invaded it and have demanded you make a move to stop them invading it more.

They care as much about your privacy as I do about the House of Lords.

I prophecize he’s lost.

I’m not greatly interested in international football but after the recent news of my books being banned in Belarus, the otherwise mundane Scotland v Belarus fixture at Hampden tomorrow has taken on a bit of an edge.

Thanks Chief

Men in Love, for 30 years now his stories & the characters he’s created have tapped into something in me that’s made it so easy for me to read and get into.. Maybe it’s the proximity (me being a Fifer) the language used, the schemes & scams. Whatever it is @irvinewelsh.bsky.social a doff ma cap sir!

@irvinewelsh.bsky.social saw this coming #bawbag

It’s sometimes nowhere near it

What are you up to today❓Why not book for the St Andrew’s Book Festival, London Nov 27–30!
Hear from @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social
@valmcdermid.bsky.social @irvinewelsh.bsky.social
Justin Currie of @delamitri.bsky.social
Sally Magnusson. 🌟
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Two top birds

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

Zack Polanski to call for tax on super-rich in speech at Green Party conference | LBC Zack Polanski will say Britain’s economy is “rigged” for the super-rich as he sets out a vision for taxing the wealthy in his first speech to the Green Party’s annual conference as leader.

Friday. 1.30pm. 👇🏼

www.lbc.co.uk/article/pola...

Going to GRAB a coffee, then JUMP on a zoom.

I love a shit verb.

It’s the wee bits that crack me up some times when reading @irvinewelsh.bsky.social books.. Wee bit here with Spud & Begbie, Spud no quite getting his geography right while on the chor in London & Begbie putting him right.. 😆😆

Thank you Bruce. I feel Lukashenko must take his share of the credit though.

Very proud.

The pen is mightier than the sword. Which ones have escaped the ban? I’m going for Marabou Stork Nightmares and Dead Men’s Trousers…

Another amazing Convenanza weekend, and thank you to everyone who came to our sold out Sunday Literary Salon feat. @reversediorama.bsky.social, @irvinewelsh.bsky.social and Zofia Page. See you again next year 🙏

📸 Photo by Luis Kramer www.instagram.com/kramerdoingb...

Started, The Blade Artist, by @irvinewelsh.bsky.social the night. This is gonnae be fun.
Going from, Rendezvous With Rama, to this will be a shock to the system.