Next Welsh novel is a romance

Bookslut:

Irvine Welsh’s forthcoming novel is a romance, reports The Scotsman.
And Welsh, whose most famous book, Trainspotting, was once criticised by the novelist Alexander McCall Smith as a classic example of Scottish “miserablism”, will also largely do away with the sex, drugs and violence that have defined his work to date.

But the humour and swearing, which caused people to walk out when Welsh used the ‘C’ word in a book reading in Washington four years ago, will remain.

What kind of stupid cunt goes to an Irvine Welsh reading and gets shocked by profanity? Jesus. Also Welsh-related: Leith resident Adrian Turpin takes exception to Welsh’s charge that the Edinburgh suburb has become “yuppified.”