All the books by Irvine Welsh adapted to cinema and television, ranked

26-year-old Mark Renton is an unemployed heroin addict living with his parents in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. After several unsuccessful attempts to reintegrate into society, Renton, Sick Boy and Spud relapse into heroin use. Upon returning home after revival at a hospital, Renton’s parents lock him in his childhood bedroom and force him to go cold turkey.

When an Edinburgh schoolgirl is abducted DI Ray Lennox, due to his own traumatic past, identifies strongly with the victim. He believes the murderer is the serial killer Mister Confectioner. But his bosses believe Confectioner is behind bars. Lennox’s insistence that they have the wrong man puts him not just in conflict with his bosses, but also onto the radar of Confectioner himself. So the detective is drawn into a cat and mouse game with the killer.

Twenty years after stealing £8,000 in drug money from his friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Daniel Spud Murphy has returned to a cycle of heroin addiction after separating from his wife, Gail, and losing access to his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left.

Twenty years after stealing £8,000 in drug money from his friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Daniel Spud Murphy has returned to a cycle of heroin addiction after separating from his wife, Gail, and losing access to his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left.

Bruce Robertson is a Detective Sergeant in Edinburgh, Scotland, who is a scheming, manipulative, misanthropic bully who spends his free time indulging in drugs, alcohol, abusive sexual relationships, and ‘the games’ — his euphemism for the vindictive plots he hatches to cause trouble for people he dislikes, including many of his colleagues.

Three twisted tales of abuse, drugs, displaced personalities, and insect life. The Granton Star Cause: A comedy in which Boab is having a rotten day. A Soft Touch: Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a man who is cuckolded by Larry, the ruthless upstairs neighbour who steals his electricity and his wife. The Acid House: An acid trip and a bolt of lightning result in amiable schemie Coco Brice exchanging bodies with the baby of a middle-class couple.

Frustrated with her boring middle class and loveless marriage, Heather Thompson seeks a change in her life. At a club, she finds just that in happily partying Lloyd Buist, a drug user. Heather falls hard for Lloyd despite the fact that most of their time spent together is under the influence of illicit substances.