IrvineWelshAuthor

Yes, it's true. It would John Graham from Musselburgh. Give Kenny my best. Top lad.

It's shit and it's driving people out of the communities they've lived in for years. Much of it is driven by megarich overseas buyers getting big second homes they live in for two weeks a year. Of course, UKIP seek to blame Polish cleaners.

1. Not at the time. But you look back and think, what will people think of you, family, close friends etc. Now I won't write anything unless I get that uncomfortable feeling.
2. Yes. It looked a mess on the page. Couldn't understand it myself at first.
3. Win-win. Crap movie - they fucked up my lovely book. Great movie - they had the material to work with.

I can't really handle them now. You spend so much of your life fucked up that being sober feels quite trippy. If something new and mind-blowing came on the market though...

I worked in Edinburgh Council and there was a crazy guy who hated the world. He hated his bosses, and his subordinates. I thought: make him a cop, then he can do some real damage. There is always a lot of stuff in the papers about dodgy coppers, because its far damaging than dodgy council workers.