Trainspotting (novel) grown eloquent". The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, "Trainspotting" (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh wrote a sequel, "Porno", in 2002. "Skagboys", a novel that serves as a prequel, was published in April 2012. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. The majority of the stories are narrated by the novel's central protagonist,
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