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The return of one of modern fiction's most notorious hard men: Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh with his new novel The Blade Artist
James Naughtie has been speaking to Irvine Welsh about his new novel: The Blade Artist.
From the drugs and violence of Trainspotting, his new novel The Blade Artist, which sees the return of Francis Begbie, the psychopath villain of trainspotting , who's become a respectful artist in California, but it turns out, he hasn't changed at all.
(Image: Irvine Welsh Credit:91热爆/George Cathro)
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