Edin Intl Book Fest: Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh: Can Nothing Save Us?<div>Sun 16 Aug 2026 | 17:00 - 18:00</div><div>Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival&nbsp;</div><div>This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>Live Stream Author EventPT1H2026-08-16Edin Intl Book Fest: Irvine Welsh"Edin Intl Book Fest: Irvine Welsh"

Showtimes

August 16, 5:00 pm

The Birks Cinema