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Alasdair Gray
A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
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Fabulous historical novel from the award-winning author
From the genius of Scottish letters, a satire of religion, the media and London.
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The first short story collection from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray, sublimely decorated throughout.
Alasdair Gray,Dante Alighieri
Alasdair Gray’s remarkable retelling of Dante’s Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray’s Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time.
Rodge Glass
Glass plays Boswell to Gray’s Johnson in this first (and very likely last), imaginative yet rigorous biography of Scotland’s greatest living novelist.
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This cornerstone epic is now available as a beautiful canon with an introduction by William Boyd
The essential essay collection by one of Britain’s most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray.
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Shows the high jinks of many folk in the last stages of physical, moral and social decrepitude - a sure tonic for the young.
Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds offers fresh perspectives on Alasdair Gray’s literary and pictorial works, with contributions that span a wide range of theoretical perspectives and levels of analysis among…
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A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray.
A collection of stories that describe painful kinds of education, the title story describing how an uninhibited woman educates a prim Scottish lecturer.
From Beowolf to Bernard Shaw: a history of literature seen through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers from all over the English speaking world.
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A fantastical comedy from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray.
The autobiography in words and pictures of one of Britain’s most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray
A fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow.
An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray’s stories gathered over the last twenty five years.
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…
An authoritative collection of Alasdair Gray’s stories gathered over the last sixty two years.
Fans of the work of Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, George Saunders, and T. Coraghessan Boyle will revel in Alasdair Gray’s masterful, witty collection. Gray’s stories defy genre, and his angular…
Arthur M. Saltzman, Stanley Elkin: An Introduction/Peter J. Bailey, ‘A Hat Where There Never Was a Hat’: Stanley Elkin’s Fifteenth Interview/Stanley Elkin, Words and Music/William Gass, Stanley Elkin: An Anecdote/Jerome…
The unforgettable, challenging and experimental second novel from the author of Lanark. Introduced by Will Self.
Luis de Juan
This book shows how Alasdair Gray’s first novel, Lanark: A Life in 4 Books, shares some of the thematic and formal concerns of postmodernist literature. The analysis is preceded by…
Carola Jansen
Dieses Buch soll all denen Hilfestellung und Gedankenanstoss sein, die sich fur den Autor und Kunstler Alasdair Gray interessieren und/oder vielleicht selbst uber ihn arbeiten wollen. Neben der Interpretation von…
The final book from the late Alasdair Gray - the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
David Greig
A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn’t know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name…
Alasdair Gray,Adam Tomkins
This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government. The authors are Alasdair Gray, writer of fiction and pamphlets such as Why Scots Should Rule Scotland, and Adam…
Thomas Carlyle
Offers an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. This title retells the theories of an equally fictitious German…
40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd.
Part one of Alasdair Gray’s remarkable interpretation of Dante’s Divina Commedia, translated and sublimely illustrated.
The 13 revised full papers, 2 short papers, 2 demo papers and 1 poster paper presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote talks and 1 tutorial paper were carefully…
The two-volume set LNCS 9981 and 9982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016, which was held in Kobe, Japan, in October 2016. The…
Alasdair Ross,John McCallum
Hitherto unpublished documents from early modern Scotland offer fascinating insights into contemporary life.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2019, held in Portoroz, Slovenia.
The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected…
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