Irvine Welsh at Waterstone’s

Sarah-Clare Conlon, Literature Editor
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Irvine Welsh at Waterstone’s at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate, City Centre 27 March 2018 Entrance is free

Legendary Edinburgh-born novelist Irvine Welsh will be signing copies of his new novel Dead Men’s Trousers, which reprises the stories of Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud, immortalised in the cult 90s classic Transporting, and brought to the big screen (including again recently as T2) by patron of HOME Manchester (and before that Cornerhouse) Danny Boyle. One of the gang will not survive the end of this new book – but who is wearing the dead man’s trousers? Get there sharpish – customers wishing to meet Irvine Welsh and get their books signed personally will be placed in a first-come, first-served queue.

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