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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