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
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