Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

About the Book

Title on cover: Work as if you live in the early days of a better world

Book Synopsis

Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales Droll & Plausible, all the original illustrations with some new, and endnotes to inform every curious reader.

Review Quotes

A genuine experimentalist.--David Lodge

A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today.--Will Self

A necessary genius.--Ali Smith

A typically compendious, inspiring, infuriating gallimaufry of [Gray's] short form prose...he is indeed a National Treasure--Stuart Kelly "Scotland on Sunday "

Gray is a genius, a born storyteller whether at a visionary or a more down-to-earth level; even the poorest of the stories contains something intriguing or funny--Theo Tate "Guardian "

Gray's direct style means even the oldest piece here still feels vital; it's a treat for fans and excellent for newcomers--Anthony Cummins "Metro "

One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language.--Irvine Welsh

About the Author

Alasdair Gray is the author of 1982, Janine; The Book of Prefaces; Old Men in Love; and Poor Things; for which he won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His first novel, the loosely autobiographical, blackly fantastical Lanark, changed the landscape of British fiction, opening up the imaginative territory inhabited today by writers such as A. L. Kennedy, James Kelman, and Irvine Welsh. It led Anthony Burgess to hail him as "the most important Scottish writer since Sir Walter Scott."