The Acid House

If you've read anything by Irvine Welsh (or seen the film Trainspotting), you should know what you're getting here: drugs and alcohol, working-class and chavvy Edinburghians., football, and a healthy dose of punk rock attitude. What Welsh also shows here, though, is a sharp, wicked sense of humour.
This collection of short stories definitely isn't for everyone (especially due to the language issue – Welsh writes half the time in a working-class Scots dialect, and uses a lot of four-letter words when doing so), but some of the stories in here are just excellent, especially The Sexual Disaster Quartet, Granny's Old Junk, The Two Philosophers, and Disnae Matter.