Alasdair Gray

What strange secret made rich, beautiful, tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie McCandless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter, the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.

Poor Things

Soon to Be a Major Film

A Novel

Poor Things [Movie Tie-In]

William Boyd

A Life in Four Books

Lanark

1982, Janine is a liberal novel of the most satisfying kind. Set over the course of one night inside the head of Jock McLeish, an aging, divorced, alcoholic, insomniac supervisor of security installations, as he tipples in the bedroom of a small Scottish hotel, it makes an unanswerable case that republicanism is a state of absolute spiritual bankruptcy. For Jock McLeish, being a Republican is something he has to cure himself of, every bit as much as his alcoholism and his Sado-Masochistic fantasizing, if he is to become a human being again. 1982, Janine explores themes of male need and inadequacy through the lonely, darkly comic, alcohol-fueled fantasies of its protagonist. An unforgettably challenging book about power and powerlessness, men and women, masters and servants, small countries and big countries, Alasdair Gray's exploration of the politics of pornography has lost none of its power to shock.

1982 Janine

Povere creature!

Set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, this modern vision of hell tells the interwoven stories of two men: Lanark and Duncan Thaw. As the Life in Four Books unfolds, the strange, buried relationship between Lanark and Thaw slowly starts to emerge. Lanark is a towering work of the imagination and is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Gray, who also illustrated and designed the novel. On its first publication it was immediately recognised as a major work of literature, and drew comparisons with Dante, Black, Joyce, Orwell, Kafka, Huxley and Lewis Carroll. Thirty years on, its power, majesty, anger and relevance has only intensified.

Dante Alighieri

Part one of Alasdair Gray's remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divina Commedia, translated and sublimely illustrated

Part One: Hell. Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

Dante's Divine Comedy

Emine Ayhan

dört kitaplık bir hayat

Alasdair Gray's first book of short stories is a masterful collection that further established him as one of Scotland's most original and important writers when it first appeared in 1983. This new edition, includes a new unlikely story, "Inches in a Column", that was lost at the time of original publication.

Unlikely Stories, Mostly

Set in and around Glasgow and the Meditteranean in the early 1880s, this unusual novel describes the love lives of two Scottish doctors and a 25-year-old woman who has been created from human remains by one of them. Winner of the 1992 Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Illustrations.

Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer

Something Leather

'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian 'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' Spectator Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey through the wheels of divine justice. Yet as he passes through the spheres of Heaven, he struggles with his faith, striving to understand the scales of good and evil that determine the fate of a human soul. The final book from Alasdair Gray, Paradise is a fitting conclusion to his own irreplaceable body of work, as well as to his masterful retelling of Dante’s trilogy.

Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray

PARADISE

sceny z wczesnych lat życia doktora Archibalda McCandlessa inspektora szkockiej służby zdrowia

Biedne istoty

How We Should Rule Ourselves

Why Scots Should Rule Scotland

Alasdair Gray is one of the finest writers, painters and creatives working in the UK. Here, he creates a candid insight into his life with this autobiography; how growing up in post-war Glasgow influenced his thinking, his relationship with his parents, the influence and work of his peers, how he came to create his masterpieces such as 'Lanark' and '1982, Janine' and his musings on life, death and everything in between.

An Autobiography

Of Me and Others

Ten Tales Tall & True

A history of literature as presented through the collected and annotated prefaces of major writers includes commentary by a range of authors including James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, and Virginia Woolf. By the author of Poor Things. Reprint.

A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century

The Book of Prefaces

A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker, and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, farm, workshop, factory, island, town, and city feel that they too are at the center of the world. Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand than in big ones like Britain and the U.S. It describes the many differences between Scotland and England, it examines the people who choose to live north of the border, it shows Scotland's relevance to the rest of the world, it attempts to conjure a vision of how a Scots parliament might benefit the people of this small but dynamic nation, and it tells us how democracy is failing wherever people stop believing that their vote will make a difference.

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