Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
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David Greig: Lanark: A Life in Three Acts
The first thing I remember is… falling. A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think …
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€11.59
Alasdair Gray: The Books of Jonah, Micah and Nahum
This 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 Israel’ …
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€1.27
Alasdair Gray: How We Should Rule Ourselves
This 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. T …
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€7.19
Dante Alighieri & Alasdair Gray: PURGATORY
In part two of La Divina Commedia, one of the masterpieces of world literature, Dante and his guide, the poet Virgil, must enter and traverse Purgatory and the seven deadly sins in their quest to rea …
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€15.24
Alasdair Gray: Unlikely Stories, Mostly
In this volume of stories and illustrations, the author of Poor Things “perfected the blend of visual and verbal elements [that] characterized his work” (Financial Times).   …
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€19.29
Alasdair Gray: The Ends Of Our Tethers: Thirteen Sorry Stories
Since 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 las …
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€10.28
Alasdair Gray: A Life In Pictures
Alasdair Gray is Scotland”s best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated in design and mural art from the Glasgow School of Art in 1957. After decades of surviving by painting and writ …
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€25.50
Fabian Flock & Yolanda Gil: Semantic Web – ISWC 2016
The two-volume set LNCS 9981 and 9982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016, which was held in Kobe, Japan, in October 2016. The 75 full pa …
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€57.78
Fabian Flock & Yolanda Gil: Semantic Web – ISWC 2016
The two-volume set LNCS 9981 and 9982 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016, which was held in Kobe, Japan, in October 2016. The 75 full pa …
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€57.78
Alasdair Gray: Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012
Sixty-four short tales from Gray”s earlier books are here joined with ten new stories, with illustrations and information to amuse curious readers. …
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€20.53
Gray Alasdair Gray: Poor Things
WINNER OF FOUR ACADEMY AWARDS, FIVE BAFTAS, and 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 wi …
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€10.26
Alasdair Gray: Old Men in Love
’A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today’ WILL SELF____________________________A dazzlingly original and expansive tale about the possibilities of storytelling from the celebrate …
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€10.26
Alasdair Gray: Independence
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 …
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€13.32
Alasdair Gray: Why Scots Should Rule Scotland
Alsadair Gray wrote the first edition of this book for the 1992 general election. In it he showed the poor state of present-day Scotland; gave a concise, elegant history of the Scottish people and th …
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€5.13
Dante Alighieri & Alasdair Gray: HELL
One of the masterpieces of world literature, completed in 1320, Dante’s La Divina Commedia describes his journey through Hell, Purgatory and his eventual arrival in Heaven. In this new version of Dan …
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€15.28
Alasdair Gray: Of Me and Others
In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox collection of essays, Alasdair Gray tells of how his early life experiences influenced his writing, including the creation of those landmarks of litera …
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€19.67
Alasdair Gray: Lanark
The cult classic novel of dreamlike fantasy and psychological realism by the author of Poor Things: A work of “vivid imagination, yielding copious riches.”—The Times Literary S …
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€19.15
Alasdair Gray: 1982, Janine
A postmodern novel of melancholy memory and erotic fantasy—“a filthy tour de force”—by the acclaimed Scottish author of Poor Things (The Washington Post). 1982 …
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€15.40
Alasdair Gray: A History Maker
A 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, anno …
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€10.26
Gray Alasdair Gray: Ten Tales Tall and True
An original and brilliantly eccentric collection of stories from the legendary Scottish author.A lecturer cornered in an embarrassing m n ge trois, a Glaswegian Cinderella and an extremely talkative …
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€9.23
Gray Alasdair Gray: Mavis Belfrage
’All of the stories in this collection exude the unique imagination, social commitment and beautifully clear, concise prose of this singular writer’ IRISH TIMESFrom the legendary Scottish author of P …
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€13.34
Dante Alighieri & Alasdair Gray: PARADISE
’Reveals Gray’s powers of insight and invention’ Guardian’One of the most vital retellings of the poem to date’ Spectator Dante, now guided by Beatrice, faces the final third of his epic journey thro …
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€15.31
Alasdair Gray: The Fall of Kelvin Walker
It 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 …
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€10.15
Alasdair Gray: McGrotty and Ludmilla
Mungo Mc Grotty’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 retel …
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€10.26
Craig Gibson: The One O’Clock Gun Anthology
Distributed free in Edinburgh’s bars and bookshops the One O’Clock Gun began in 2004 as a thought provoking, ballsy and often irreverent paper that initially appeared with a humble few followers.Toda …
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€4.79
Dante Alighieri & Alasdair Gray: Dante”s Divine Trilogy
In 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 comp …
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€15.43
Alasdair Gray: Life In Pictures
ALASDAIR GRAY is Scotland’s best known polymath. Born in 1934 in Glasgow, he graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1957 then lived by part-time teaching, painting and writing plays for TV and radio …
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€20.44
Alasdair J Gray & Samuel P Mackenzie: McRae. Traumatología. Tratamiento de las fracturas en urgencias
- Este libro permite consultar de forma fácil y rápida cualquier patología, tanto ortopédica como traumática y obtener orientaciones diagnósticas y criterios acerca del tratamiento de cada ca …
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€35.75
Alasdair Gray: Book of Prefaces
’Superb … There is no disputing the enormous knowledge, the sheer love of books that is gathered here’ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY____________________A great and fascinating work from Scottish literary lege …
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€20.32
Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
This extraordinary work is at one and the same time an account of a personal spiritual crisis and a hilarious spoof on academic learning, early Victorian values and materialism. In Sartor Resartus (‘ …
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€12.32
Alasdair Gray: Szegény párák
Szabadság nélkül nem érdemes élni. Godwin Baxternek az a tudományos ambíciója, hogy egy tökéletes társat alkosson önmagának. Álmai akkor látszanak beteljesedni, amikor rátalál a szépséges Bella holtt …
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€12.24
