Before Trainspotting came Skagboys the Number One Bestseller. Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking young with a pretty girlfriend & a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s & when his family starts to fracture Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends
- Spud Murphy is laid off from his job Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime violence & the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current scamming & hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating & moving Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever.