Skagboys just out for the buzz on drugs, to total junkies. It shows how their attitudes and behaviour start to change as they become more defined by the drug and the culture around it". In 2012, Welsh said the prequel was actually initially written as part of "Trainspotting" but was not used in the published version. He later decided he would either erase his old work or use it in some way, as "he had a fear that he might fall under a bus and leave behind 'half-written stuff' which people would publish". He said, "I just went through it and
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