Alasdair Gray bibliography

Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) wrote novels, short stories, poetry and drama.

Novels
  • Lanark (1981) ISBN 978-1-84767-374-9
  • 1982, Janine (1984) ISBN 978-1-84767-444-9
  • The Fall of Kelvin Walker (1985)
  • Something Leather (1990) ISBN 9780330319447
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990) ISBN 9781872536002
  • Poor Things (1992) ISBN 9781564783073
  • A History Maker (1994)[1]
  • Mavis Belfrage (1996) ISBN 9780747530893
  • Old Men In Love (2007) ISBN 9780747593539

Short stories
  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983) ISBN 978-1-84767-502-6
  • Lean Tales (1985) (with James Kelman and Agnes Owens) (1995) ISBN 9780099585411
  • Ten Tales Tall & True (1993) ISBN 9780151000906
  • The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories. Canongate Books. 2005. ISBN 978-1-84195-626-8.
  • Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012. Canongate Books. 2012. ISBN 978-0-85786-562-5.

Poetry
  • Old Negatives (1989) ISBN 9780224026567
  • Sixteen Occasional Poems (2000)[1]
  • Collected Verse (2010) ISBN 9781906120535

Translations
  • Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One Decorated and Englished in Prosaic Verse (2018) ISBN 978-1-78689-253-9
  • Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two Englished in Prosaic Verse (2019) ISBN 978-1-78689-473-1

Theatre
  • Dialogue - A Duet (1971)[1]
  • The Loss of the Golden Silence(1973)[1]
  • Homeward Bound: A Trio for Female Chauvinists (1973)[1]
  • Sam Lang and Miss Watson: A One Act Sexual Comedy In Four Scenes (1973)[2]
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla (1986)[1]
  • Working Legs: A Play for Those Without Them (1997)[1]
  • Goodbye Jimmy (2006)[2]
  • Midgieburgers (2007)[2]
  • A Gray Play Book (2009) ISBN 9781906307912[2]
  • Fleck (2011)[3]

Television

Radio

As illustrator
  • 100 Songs of Scotland (Author, Wilma Patterson) (1996))[1]

Non-fiction
  • Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992; revised 1997)ISBN 978-0862416713
  • The Book of Prefaces (ed.) (2000) ISBN 978-0747559122
  • A Short Survey of Classic Scottish Writing (2001), (ISBN 978-1841951676)
  • How We Should Rule Ourselves (2005) (with Adam Tomkins, ISBN 978-1841957227)
  • Alasdair Gray (2010). A Life In Pictures. Canongate Books. ISBN 978-1-84767-962-8.
  • Of Me & Others: An Autobiography (Cargo Publishing.) (2014) ISBN 978-1786895202

Other appearances

Music
  • Cindytalk Wappinschaw (Touched Recordings, 1994) - Gray appears on "Wheesht" reading from Book 2 of Lanark[5]
  • Future Pilot AKA Secrets From The Clockhouse (Creeping Bent, 2006) – Gray performs on "Equations of Love"[6]
  • LAN Formatique The Sadness of Distances (Signifier, 2012) - Gray reads from the poems "Mind the Gap" and "1st of March, 1990", and in "The Stars Are But Thistles" reads from the poem "Dictators".[7]

Film
  • Under the Helmet was a 1964 BBC film about the career of Alasdair Gray.[8]

Anthologies
  • (Contributor) Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology (Edinburgh, 2010)[9]
  • (Contributor) "Elsewhere: Here" (Cargo Publishing/McSweeney's, 2012) ISBN 9781908885050
  • (Contributor) Beacons: Stories for Our Not So Distant Future (Oneworld Publications, 2013) ISBN 978-1851689699

Books about Gray

Academic
  • The Arts of Alasdair Gray, Robert Crawford and Thom Nairn (1991) ISBN 978-0748602940
  • Alasdair Gray, Stephen Bernstein (1999) ISBN 9780838754146
  • Alasdair Gray: A Unique Scottish Magus, Joy Hendry (ed.) (2000) ISBN 978-0906772973
  • Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography, Phil Moores (ed.) (2001; includes contributions by Gray.) ISBN 978-0712311298
  • Postmodern Strategies in Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life in Four Books, Luis de Juan (2003) ISBN 978-0820459905
  • Shades of Gray: Science Fiction, History and the Problem of Postmodernism in the Work of Alasdair Gray, Dietmar Böhnke (2004) ISBN 978-1931255189
  • Alasdair Gray: The Fiction of Communion, Gavin Miller (2005) ISBN 978-9042017573
  • Voices from Modern Scotland: Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray, Bernard Sellin (coord.) (2007) ISBN 978-2916424101
  • Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds, Camille Manfredi (ed.) (2014; includes contributions by Gray.) ISBN 978-1137401779

Biographical
  • Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Rodge Glass (2008) ISBN 978-0747590156
  • A Life in Pictures (2010) (illustrated autobiography) ISBN 978-1841956404
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gollark: I mean, that actually has a window manager and multitasking and stuff.
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References
  1. "Gray's Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae". Alasdair Gray. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  2. Gray (2009).
  3. Dugdale, John (29 August 2011). "Festival finale:Alasdair Gray's all start Fleck". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  4. "Alasdair (James) Gray Biography". biography.jrank.org. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  5. "Cindytalk - Wappinschaw". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  6. "Future Pilot A. K. A. - Secrets From The Clockhouse". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  7. "LAN Formatique - The Sadness Of Distances". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  8. "Under the Helmet". BBC. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  9. "Leamington Books". Leamington Books. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
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