Filth (novel) of football hooligans committed in "Marabou Stork Nightmares". "Ghostie" Gorman – Ghostie was among the rapists mentioned above in "Marabou Stork Nightmares". In "Filth" Bruce kills Gorman by biting out his tongue, causing him to reel backwards and fall out of a two-story window, where he suffers fatal head injuries. Francis Begbie – Begbie was a main character in "Trainspotting", its prequel "Skagboys" and sequel "Porno". He is briefly mentioned a few times in "Filth", associated with Lexo as running a second-hand furniture store in Leith. Mention of the business Begbie and Lexo are in is also made in "Marabou
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