Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991

'Glesca Belongs to Me!'

By Gordon A. Craig
The Busconductor Hines
by James Kelman

Polygon, 237 pp., £8.95

Greyhound for Breakfast
by James Kelman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 230 pp., $15.95

A Disaffection
by James Kelman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 337 pp., $18.95

Lean Tales
by James Kelman, by Agnes Owens, by Alasdair Gray

Abacus, 287 pp., £3.99 (paper)

The Burn
by James Kelman

Secker and Warburg, 244 pp., £12.99

Lanark: A Life in Four Books
by Alasdair Gray

Braziller, 560 pp., $9.95 (paper)

Unlikely Stories, Mostly
by Alasdair Gray

Penguin, 280 pp., $6.95 (paper)

The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
by Alasdair Gray

Braziller, 144 pp., $14.95

1982 Janine
by Alasdair Gray

Penguin, 345 pp., $6.95 (paper)

McGrotty and Ludmilla or The Harbinger Report
by Alasdair Gray

Dog and Bone, 132 pp., £5.00

Something Leather
by Alasdair Gray

Jonathan Cape, 251 pp., £12.95

In the first years of the present century, the Glasgow comedian Will Fyffe wrote a song that conquered the music halls immediately and has been a staple at Scottish convivial gatherings ever since. The refrain went:



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