Alasdair Gray

• Oct-1984
• / General Fiction
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In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things “perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work” (Financial Times).   In “The Crank that Made the Revolution,” an enterpris...

• Nov-1984
• / Erotica
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• Feb-1989
• / General Fiction
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Alasdair Gray's fiction is about modern states of love, faith, language and politics. The verses in Old Negatives deal with the same things, omitting politics. They have been written at different times since 1952 and are arranged chronologically to s...

• Jun-1991
• / General Fiction
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The loves and lives of June, Senga and Donalda are told in this book which covers the period 1963 to 1990. Also featured are unhappy children, a liberal headmistress, a tobacconist`s family, a commercial traveller, a lighthouse keeper and a pimp. ...

• Sep-1991
• / General Fiction
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It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through his wanton ambition, a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad, or ar...

• Mar-1993
• / Literary
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The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a freewheeling novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean. 15,000 first printing....

• Mar-1994
• / General Fiction
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NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS."Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things echoes Mary Shelle...

• May-1995
• / General Fiction
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With this extraordinary collection, Gray carries on the tradition of his oddly delightful Poor Things, from the alarming tale of the train of the future and the child who has not yet made up its mind whether to be male or female to the poignancy of "...

• Nov-1995
• / Science Fiction
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A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the Ettrick Forest in the 23rd century. Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettrick chief, is unhappy with his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle. Only when challenged by the seductive Delilah Puddock do...

• May-1996
• / General Fiction
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• May-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2002
• / Science Fiction
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The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of “vivid imagination, yielding copious riches.” -- The Times Literary Supplement   From its first publication in 1981, Alasdair ...

• Feb-2005
• / General Fiction
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Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark was published by Canongate, his characters have aged as fast as their author. The Ends of Our Tethers shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude -...

• Jun-2010
• / Historical
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“Beautiful, inventive, ambitious and nuts.” -- The Times (London)

“Our nearest contemporary equivalent to Blake, our sweetest-natured screwed-up visionary.” -- London Evening Standard

Alasdair Gray’s unique melding of humor a...

• Oct-2013
• / Literary
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The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this co...

• Feb-2021
• / Literary
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Mungo McGrotty’s career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and deadly) Harbinger Report, he realises he can blackmail his way to the very top. This twisted Grayian retelling of the Aladdin story under the Thatcher reg...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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