{"product_id":"9781787335752","title":"Men in Love","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Irvine Welsh\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 24 July 2025 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 544 pages\u003cbr\u003e163 x 242 x 50mm | 788g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERChoose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh’s blazing new novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* A Best Summer Read for the Guardian, i Paper, Esquire, Scotsman and more * 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest? PRAISE FOR THE TRAINSPOTTING NOVELS: ‘The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive’ DOUGLAS STUART ‘So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers’ THE TIMES ‘The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent’ SUNDAY TIMES(Men in Love was a #4 Sunday Times bestseller, July 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irvine Welsh","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56261234131269,"sku":"9781787335752","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/3721\/6069\/files\/9781787335752.jpg?v=1763038004","url":"https:\/\/stripyduckbookshopcafe.co.uk\/products\/9781787335752","provider":"The Stripy Duck Bookshop Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}