The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins is the ninth novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, published in May 2014. Similarities have been drawn between this book and Welsh's first novel, "Trainspotting". Elena Seymenliyska of "The Daily Telegraph" wrote, "It's a bit like his debut, "Trainspotting" (1993), only instead of the tenements of Leith, we're in the condos of Miami Beach. And in place of heroin addicts, alcoholics and violent psychos, here we have fitness instructors, poseurs – and violent psychos." "The Guardian" published a review of the book on 8 May 2014. In the
Ice (Kavan novel) has been paid to the recurring imagery of coldness and encroaching ice, which is commonly associated with Kavan's struggles with heroin addiction and mental illness. Other critics argue that the symbolism resists straightforward biographical interpretations. The novel's preoccupations with violent sexuality and female agency have invited feminist interpretations. "Ice" was Kavan's first major literary success. After the publication of the novel, she was profiled in the September 1967 edition of Nova, alongside Jean Rhys. Brian Aldiss, whose work Kavan admired, praised it as the best science fiction novel of 1967. In 1968, a week after Kavan's death, Doubleday published "Ice"