Novel in Scotland Disaffection" (1989) were among the first novels to fully utilise a working class Scots voice as the main narrator. In the 1990s major, prize winning, Scottish novels that emerged from this movement included Gray's "Poor Things" (1992), which investigated the capitalist and imperial origins of Scotland in an inverted version of the Frankenstein myth, Irvine Welsh's (b. 1958), "Trainspotting" (1993), which dealt with the drug addiction in contemporary Edinburgh, Alan Warner’s (b. 1964) "Morvern Callar" (1995), dealing with death and authorship and Kelman’s "How Late It Was, How Late" (1994), a stream of consciousness novel dealing with a life of
Jon S. Baird Jon S. Baird Jon S. Baird (born November 1972) is a Scottish film director. Born and raised in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, he began his career at BBC television. Baird has worked with producers including; Martin Scorsese, Danny Boyle, Jim Carrey, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter. Baird's highly acclaimed feature Filth (2013), which he also wrote, directed and produced, was based on the best selling novel by Irvine Welsh and starred James McAvoy. Filth won numerous awards and played at several international film festivals. Filth is in the top ten highest grossing UK 18 certificates of all time. In 2014, Baird directed