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'Trainspotting' author ventures into TV with a grim and compelling cop series
Irvine Welsh says small-screen adaptation of his novel 'Crime' is about our troubled times and failing institutions like the police and politics
16 January 2022 - 00:00
Depending on who you believe — the man himself or the Scottish police — novelist and general punk-art agent provocateur Irvine Welsh was born in the Edinburgh port neighbourhood of Leith in 1958 or 1951, the son of a waitress mother and a dock worker father...
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