Skagboys Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is a prequel to his 1993 novel "Trainspotting", and its 2002 sequel "Porno". It follows the earlier lives of characters Renton and Sick Boy as they first descend into heroin addiction. When Welsh described the novel he said: "I think I’m going to call it Skag Boys: “skag” is my favourite word for heroin. It's set before they’re into heroin and investigates how the main characters become junkies, the family dynamics, the anxieties of young men. A lot of the fringe characters become more prominent". "I had a
My Name Is Mina My Name Is Mina My Name Is Mina is a 2010 children's novel by David Almond. It is a prequel to "Skellig" and is about Mina, a homeschooled girl who lives across the road from the house that Michael's family moves into at the beginning of "Skellig". The novel takes the form of a stream of consciousness journal. "Booklist", in a starred review of "My Name Is Mina", wrote "Almond is rather brave to have written a prequel to Skellig (1998), a book that was the essence of originality. So many things could have gone wrong. But he is too