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2nd December 2008

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Trainspotting prequel to Cape

25.07.08 Benedicte Page

Robin Robertson at Jonathan Cape has bought a prequel to Trainspotting from Irvine Welsh.

Skagboys, set in Edinburgh around 1984, will feature all the Trainspotting characters, and will chart their lives and loves "from a casual interest in speed, sex and football to full-blown smack addiction". Robertson bought world rights in a two-book deal from Gill Coleridge at Rogers, Coleridge & White for a "substantial" sum.

Also from Coleridge, Robertson has bought UK and Commonwealth rights in two new novels from Man Booker-winner Anne Enright, with the first due for publication in 2010.

Robertson, who has worked with both authors since the beginning of their careers, described them as "spectacularly gifted writers with very different approaches", saying it was "a huge pleasure" to be continuing his relationship with each.

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