ARGONAUT BOOKS

In 1996 Trainspotting was the biggest thing in British culture. Brilliantly and aggressively marketed, Danny Boyle's adaptation of the Irvine Welsh novel crossed into the mainstream despite being a black comedy set against the backdrop of heroin addiction in Edinburgh. Although it heralded a false dawn for British filmmaking, Trainspotting is, Murray Smith concludes, both authentically vernacular and yet transnational in its influences and ambitions. In his afterword to this new edition, Smith reflects on the original film 25 years after its release, and its 2017 sequel T2: Trainspotting, also...Read More