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
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