Skagboys addict is the ultimate individualist.." "" remarks, "It was known that there was more material of "Trainspotting" than went into the final draft, but that’s true of most novels. So you anticipate a lashed-together series of outtakes and bloopers. What you get is something quite different. The prequel has all the marvellous set pieces, the schemes, stories, scams and dreams and the same mad profusion of narrators that characterises everything Welsh has written. But it’s long, strange, full of lush description that gives the whole thing a haunting and elegiac quality". Skagboys Skagboys is a 2012 novel by Scottish writer
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! the first novel in the series, originally titled , into ASCII Media Works' 17th Dengeki Novel Prize in 2010 and the novel won the Silver Prize. The first novel was published by ASCII Media Works on February 10, 2011, under their Dengeki Bunko imprint, and 18 main novels have been released as of January 10, 2018. Two prequel novels have also been published. In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Yen Press announced their plans to publish the light novels in 2015. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Akio Hiiragi, started serialization in the February 2012 issue of ASCII Media Works' "shōnen"