Alasdair Gray

Lanark (2002)

1982, Janine (1984)

The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories (2005)

"[...]I closed my eyes and enjoyed walking on a grassy hilltop beside a tall, slender, beautiful young woman I had loved when I was fifty. Even in this dream I knew our love was in the past, that my virility was dead and that no beautiful woman would ever love me again. I told her this. She grew ...

Ten Tales Tall And True (1995)

Another excellent collection of short stories from the best living Scottish writer. The only reason I don't give this collection a maximum rating of 5 stars is because it's not quite as good as Gray's first collection, *Unlikely Stories, Mostly* which contains my favourite short story of all time...

A History Maker (2015)

Two things give this science fiction a Scottish accent: (1) set in one of those places one normally doesn't think of as forward-looking, progressive or otherwise futuristic, in this case Ettrick Forest and (2) it is actually written with more than a smattering of Scots English and dialect. I can ...