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
A Welsh Singer (novel) in 1896. Puddicombe’s work was rejected by six publishers, after which she decided to change the title to "A Welsh Singer" under the pen name 'Allen Raine’, which then was successfully published. Puddicombe, assuming the name Allen Raine, soon became one of Wales’s most popular novelists. All of her publications focused on the life of locals in small Welsh villages and towns. It was adapted into a film starring Henry Edwards and Florence Turner in 1915. A Welsh Singer (novel) A Welsh Singer is a novel written by Anne Puddicombe in 1896. It was later adapted into a silent drama