Decent ride

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh. But has ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’? 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.