(This recording contains explicit content.) Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh gained international acclaim with his 1996 novel Trainspotting and the subsequent eponymous film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor. Welsh is an inveterate stylist. One reviewer describes the Trainspotting vernacular as “a kind of Burroughs-like junk language, grossly and intimately performative.” His other well-known works include Filth, Glue, Ecstasy, and Porno. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry, and the need to belong in the world.