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Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray 9780857865618
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.63The 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... -
McGrotty and Ludmilla by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25Mungo 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... -
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his... -
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.54What 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... -
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he's splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the foundations of the art... -
A History Maker Alasdair Gray 9781841955766
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope - edited,... -
A Life In Pictures Alasdair Gray 9781841956404
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $70.01Alasdair Gray is known throughout the world for his writing, but he is also a highly regarded artist who not only illustrates and designs his own books, but has created many beautiful and intriguing... -
Alasdair Gray by Stephen Bernstein 9780838754146
Booksplease Price: $159.88Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's... -
The Fall of Kelvin Walker by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25It 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... -
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.48In this masterful retelling of one of the greatest works of world literature, Alasdair Gray - in his last work - offers an original translation in prosaic English rhyme. Lyrical and modern, this... -
PARADISE: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49'Reveals Gray's powers of insight and invention' Guardian'One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date' SpectatorDante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey... -
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer'Remarkable' William BoydLanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven... -
The Books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum Alasdair Gray 9780862419714
RRP: $7.80Booksplease Price: $6.77This text presents the books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum. The book of Jonah shows the people of Nineveh being forgiven, yet this overturns usual biblical narrative such as Micah and Nahum where... -
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Poor Things [Movie Tie-In] by Alasdair Gray 9780063374683
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $24.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063374683Author Alasdair GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
How We Should Rule Ourselves by Alasdair Gray
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.51This pamphlet is for anyone alarmed by the present British government. It argues that the component nations of the United Kingdom can become true democracies only by declaring themselves republics... -
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray 9781838852900
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.6340th anniversary edition'Probably the greatest novel of the century' ObserverLanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of... -
Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds by Camille Manfredi 9781137401779
Booksplease Price: $90.25Alasdair 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... -
Of Me and Others: 1952-2019 Alasdair Gray 9781786895202
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $19.87In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of... -
Poor Things: Soon to be a major film by Alasdair Gray 9781526657886
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.88WINNER OF TWO GOLDEN GLOBES, STARRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize A life without freedom to choose is not... -
Vestigial: Poems after Alasdair Gray's Lanark by Juana Adcock 9781910416228
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910416228Author Juana AdcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Stewed Rhubarb PressPublisher... -
The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories Alasdair Gray 9781841955339
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Since 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... -
Toward Post-Postmodernism. About Alasdair Gray's "Glaswegians" by John Dorsch 9783668634152
RRP: $73.91Booksplease Price: $34.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668634152Author John DorschFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin... -
Loving Alasdair: the 39 years of my life with Alasdair Gray May Hooper 9781904737667
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07The Author is a trained nurse and her medical knowledge and caring disposition helped form the bedrock of the relationship. It was a relationship that began in the early 1980s when May Hooper and... -
Scottish Literature, Borders and the Environmental Imagination Julia Ditter 9781350431027
Booksplease Price: $167.02Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in... -
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn 9780349100869
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64A National Book Award Finalist: This 'wonderfully descriptive' novel from an author with a 'tremendous imagination' tells the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.77The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
Phantom Limb by Chris Kohler 9781805460831
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25'Mesmerising... the work of a writer possessed of a rare power and vision' Daily TelegraphOne evening, Gillis - a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god - falls into a hole... -
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838857646
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
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Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future by Val McDermid 9781838851699 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $4.37The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility.Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to... -
The Novel Today: A Critical Guide to the British Novel 1970-1989 by Allan Massie 9780582004078
Booksplease Price: $88.55This is a survey of contemporary British fiction. Focussing primarily on the distinctive achievement and personality of each writer, the author also discusses the contribution of British fiction to... -
Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker 9780582028920
Booksplease Price: $115.97Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood... -
Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman 9781916751491
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.25Rejected by his brother and largely ignored by his parents, Kieron Smith finds comfort - and endless stories - in the home of his much-loved grandparents. But when his family move to a new housing... -
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The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson 9780141023359 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $4.27The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief.For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone... -
The Dear Green Place Archie Hind 9781846976865
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FICTION OF THE YEAR AWARD ONE OF THE LIST'S BEST SCOTTISH BOOKS OF ALL TIME Set in nineteen-sixties Glasgow, this novel portrays the struggles and conflicts of young... -
The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence 9781857151619
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for its sensuous... -
Contemporary British Novelists by Nick Rennison
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $217.13Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory... -
Realism and Power: Postmodern British Fiction by Alison Lee 9781138796195
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it... -
Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.32An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised... -
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg 9781786891860
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself... -
No Mean City by Alexander McArthur
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61No book is more associated with the city of Glasgow than No Mean City. First published in 1935, it is the story of Johnnie Stark, son of a violent father and a downtrodden mother, the 'Razor King' of...