Men in Love

Author Irvine Welsh
Narrator Tam Dean Burn Burn
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 24 July 2025
Run Time 20 hours and 8 minutes
Format Audio
Genre ‘Street’ fiction, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues.

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Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller.

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.

Leaving heroin behind and 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 starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy 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?

© Irvine Welsh 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

Critics 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)

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

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

Drugs, bad sex, ripe Scottish vernacular… the colloquial vigour of the writing never flags

Mail on Sunday

These characters remain alive on the page, more than 30 years on

Daily Mail

User Reviews

Book 5.0

Narration 5.0

5.0

Another great adventure with the LYT, characters brought to life by the superb, inimitable Tam Dean Burn.
Sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, always engrossing, I already can't wait for the next spin-off look into the conquests and mishaps of Renton, Sick-Boy, Begbie and maybe Spud.
If you've already listened to the previous audiobooks in this series you won't need convincing to go for this one, anyone new to these excellent stories your in for a treat.

Jiggybongo 30/07/2025

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