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 ...

Irvine Welsh credited the “verbal culture” of Edinburgh as a major influence on his storytelling at the launch of his new documentary in the city. The Trainspotting author, 64, said his film Choose ...

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 ...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...