Alasdair Gray bibliography

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

## Novels[edit]

* 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[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Old Negatives (1989) ISBN 9780224026567
* Sixteen Occasional Poems (2000)[1]
* Collected Verse (2010) ISBN 9781906120535
* Guts Minced with Oatmeal: Ten Late poems (2018) ISBN 9780992729875

## Translations[edit]

* 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
* Paradise: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three, Englished in Prosaic Verse (2020) ISBN 978-1786894748

## Theatre[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Martin (1971)[1]
* Dialogue - A Duet (1972)[1]
* Today and Yesterday (1975)[citation needed]
* Beloved (1976)[1]

## Radio[edit]

* Quiet People (1968)[1]
* Dialogue: A Duet (1969)[1]
* The Trial of Thomas Muir (1970)[1]
* The Loss of the Golden Silence (1973)[1]
* McGrotty and Ludmilla (1975)[1]

## As illustrator[edit]

* 100 Songs of Scotland (Author, Wilma Patterson) (1996))[1]

## Non-fiction[edit]

* 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)
* Gray, Alasdair (2009). 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[edit]

### Music[edit]

* Cindytalk Wappinschaw (Touched Recordings, 1994) - Gray appears on "Wheesht" reading from Book 2 of Lanark[4]
* Future Pilot AKA Secrets From The Clockhouse (Creeping Bent, 2006) – Gray performs on "Equations of Love"[5]
* 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".[6]

### Film[edit]

* Under the Helmet was a 1964 BBC film about the career of Alasdair Gray.[7]

### Anthologies[edit]

* (Contributor) Pax Edina: The One O' Clock Gun Anthology (Edinburgh, 2010)[8]
* (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[edit]

### Academic[edit]

* 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[edit]

* Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Rodge Glass (2008) ISBN 978-0747590156
* A Life in Pictures (2010) (illustrated autobiography) ISBN 978-1841956404

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "Gray's Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae". Alasdair Gray. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
2. ^ a b c d Gray (2009).
3. ^ Dugdale, John (29 August 2011). "Festival finale:Alasdair Gray's all start Fleck". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
4. ^ "Cindytalk - Wappinschaw". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
5. ^ "Future Pilot A. K. A. - Secrets From The Clockhouse". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
6. ^ "LAN Formatique - The Sadness Of Distances". Discogs. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
7. ^ "Under the Helmet". BBC. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
8. ^ "Leamington Books". Leamington Books. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2014.