It could even be said that he created a new genre: kitchen-sink surrealism (notably the scene where Renton fishes in his excrement for his precious opioid suppositories before disappearing down the toilet). Welsh captured brilliantly what it felt like to be cocooned in a heroin haze, no matter how scabby the reality. The novel is fast-paced, shocking, amoral, written in a sweary, phonetic, catarrhal slang. Their lives are desperate (a baby girl dies because her parents are too mashed to save her), yet Trainspotting somehow became a symbol of 90s cool. Trainspotting follows the exploits of five (later four) pals, and a pretty unwholesome group they are: liars, thieves, scammers and, of course, that unforgettable psychopath Francis Begbie. The film of the book had even more impact: in 2012, it topped a poll of the best British films of the past 60 years. It has sold more than 1m copies in the UK alone and is said to be the most shoplifted novel in British publishing history. In a Waterstones poll of 25,000 people, it was voted the 10th greatest book of the 20th century. Trainspotting, published in 1993, is a violent black comedy about working-class heroin addicts in Edinburgh. Welsh says it will be the final instalment (though by the end of the afternoon he’s not quite so sure). The author is about to release Dead Men’s Trousers, the fifth novel in his Trainspotting series. But I have an obsessive-compulsive thing going on.” Writing is an itch he’s got to scratch – particularly when it comes to Trainspotting. “It’s people who never take drugs who say that. “I don’t like it when people say I’ve got an addictive personality,” he says. He knows he never has to work another day in his life, but he can’t stop himself. Irvine Welsh is doing just fine for money.

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