Mavis Belfrage (17 page)

Novels:
LANARK
1982 JANINE
THE FALL OF KELVIN WALKER
McGROTTY AND LUDMILLA
POOR THINGS
A HISTORY MAKER
MAVIS BELFRAGE

Short story books:
UNLIKELY STORIES MOSTLY
LEAN TALES (with Agnes Owens and James Kelman)

Verse:
OLD NEGATIVES

Polemic:
WHY SCOTS SHOULD RULE SCOTLAND
THE STATE WE ARE IN (with Angela Mullane)

Anthology:
THE BOOK OF PREFACES

First published in 1996
This electronic edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Copyright © Alasdair Gray 1996

The moral right of the author has been asserted

“Money” first appeared in
Scotlands
, 1994; “Edison's
Tractatus
” in
New Novel Review
, April 1995; “The Shortest Tale” in
Madam X
, Published by Colophon, 1996.

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