Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh will be signing copies of his new book in Glasgow.

The Edinburgh born writer will be visiting Fopp on Union Street at 10.30am on Saturday, April 1, to sign copies of A Decent Ride.

He will also visit HMV in Aberdeen on Sunday, April 19 at 12.30pm.

A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult

status, Wee Jonty MacKay.

In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild

comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos.

The author will also be at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow on Friday, April 17 at 7.30pm as part of the Aye Write Festival.

Tickets are now sold out for the Aye Right event.