Irvine Welsh Trust for social inclusion in Edinburgh. In "Crime", Ray Lennox (from Welsh's previous work, "Filth") is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. The story takes place in Florida. In 2012 Welsh published a prequel to "Trainspotting", titled "Skagboys". Set in Leith in the early 1980s, it introduces the "Trainspotting" characters and follows them as they fall into heroin addiction. Given as a series of linked short stories, the book is also interspersed with brief commentaries on contemporary British politics. In particular, the consequences
The Devil to Pay (Parkinson novel) "The Devil to Pay" refers to the task of caulking, or "paying", the deck seams with hot pitch. The outermost seam—between the deck and the hull—is the hardest to caulk. It is called "the devil". The full phrase is "The devil to pay, and no pitch hot"—more generally the phrase is used to refer to any urgent, desperate situation. However this has been disputed in numerous sources and WorldWideWords.com references the phrase as: This novel was the first Parkinson wrote. The next novel in the series is "The Fireship". Parkinson later went back and wrote a prequel, "The Guernseyman", set