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
Irving A. Leonard Irving A. Leonard Irving Albert Leonard (December 1, 1896 in New Haven, Connecticut – October 1, 1996 in Alexandria, Virginia) was an American historian and translator, specialising in Hispanic history and art. His best known publications are "Books of the Brave" (1949) and "Baroque Times in Old Mexico: Seventeenth-Century Persons, Places and Practices" (1959), which won the Conference on Latin American History award for the best book in English. "Books of the Brave", a valuable account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World, was updated in 1992. He had many papers published in the "American Historical Review"