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Alasdair Gray bibliography

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

Novels

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  • 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

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Poetry

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Translations

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Radio

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As illustrator

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

Non-fiction

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Other appearances

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Music

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  • 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

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

Anthologies

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  • (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

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Academic

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  • 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

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References

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  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.