Authors: Alasdair Gray
Novels:
LANARK
1982 JANINE
THE FALL OF KELVIN WALKER
McGROTTY AND LUDMILLA
POOR THINGS
A HISTORY MAKER
MAVIS BELFRAGE
Short story books:
UNLIKELY STORIES MOSTLY
LEAN TALES (with Agnes Owens and James Kelman)
Verse:
OLD NEGATIVES
Polemic:
WHY SCOTS SHOULD RULE SCOTLAND
THE STATE WE ARE IN (with Angela Mullane)
Anthology:
THE BOOK OF PREFACES
First published in 1996
This electronic edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Copyright © Alasdair Gray 1996
The moral right of the author has been asserted
“Money” first appeared in
Scotlands
, 1994; “Edison's
Tractatus
” in
New Novel Review
, April 1995; “The Shortest Tale” in
Madam X
, Published by Colophon, 1996.
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