Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irvine Welsh - Credit: Zoe Law* Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh and co-screenwriter Dean Cavanagh are collaborating on the script for a new TV drama series ...

ACADEMICS warmly welcome the release of each thoroughly comprehensive volume in what has become a chronological range of Welsh writing in English to surpass anything that has come before. ACADEMICS ...

She was nominated for the greatest award in literature, the Nobel Prize, and was considered a contemporary of writers such as Virginia Woolf. But 40 years after her death and despite being described ...

Welsh writers have been given a prominent platform at this year's Hay Festival. The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is currently enjoying a resurgence of his most famous novel thanks to Danny Boyle's film sequel T2: Trainspotting (which was loosely based on Welsh's follow-up novel ...

Fourteen writers have been longlisted by literary magazine New Welsh Review for this year’s New Welsh Writing Awards. The short-form writing contest, now in its fifth year, will see books compete for ...

Welsh writers have been given a prominent platform at this year's Hay Festival. The literary event in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, is one of the world's leading book festivals. While celebrity authors and ...