Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting: A Reader's Guide, by Robert A. Morace. Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001. ISBN0-8264-5237-X.
Working-class Fiction: From Chartism to Trainspotting, by Ian Haywood. Published by Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1997. ISBN0-7463-0780-2.
Trainspotting: Director, Danny Boyle, by Martin Stollery. Published by Longman, 2001. ISBN0-582-45258-9.