Edin Intl Book Fest: Irvine Welsh

Sun 16 Aug 2026 | 17:00 - 18:00

Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival 

This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs). 

Scotland’s grittiest writer returns to launch Can Nothing Save Us? – a ferocious saga of moral freefall, set in a blisteringly hot Las Vegas. Irvine Welsh turns his unflinching gaze on a nation in crisis with this novel following three generations of a wealthy, divided family spiralling toward paranoia, drug-fuelled excess, and explosive reckoning. Join the bard of bad behaviour – 30 years on from the Trainspotting movie – for an unfiltered chat about power, entitlement, and moral decay with Kevin Williamson.