Trainspotting is the
first novel by Scottish writer
Irvine Welsh, first published in 1993. It takes the form of a collection of short stories, written in either
Scots,
Scottish English or
British English, revolving around various residents of
Leith,
Edinburgh who either use
heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as
addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the late 1980s.