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1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray; Will Self (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcoming ...Show more
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
$49.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Alasdair Gray is Scotland's best known polymath. Born 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writing TV and radio plays, his first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastic Lanark, opened up new im ...Show more
Dante's Divine Trilogy by Alasdair Gray, Dante Alighieri
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Canons Ser.
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.
Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 published together for the first time. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray' ...Show more
Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1952-2012 by Alasdair Gray
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Sixty four short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with ten new stories, with illustrations and information to amuse curious readers.
Independence - An Argument for Home Rule by Alasdair Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world. Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such ...Show more
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Lanark", a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about hu ...Show more
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable ...A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' WILLIAM BOYD Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A w ...Show more
Lanark: A Life in Four Books by Alasdair Gray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd. 40th anniversary edition 'Probably the greatest novel of the century' - Observer Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lan ...Show more
Paradise - Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three. Englished in Prosaic Verse by Alasdair Gray by Alasdair Gray; Dante Alighieri
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The final book from the late Alasdair Gray - the conclusion to his remarkable interpretation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING EMMA STONE, FROM YORGOS LANTHIMOS, DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE. A life without freedom to choose is not worth having. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he find ...Show more
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of Alasdair Gray’s most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter-a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter’s scientific ambition to create the perfect companio ...Show more