PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in Pictures. In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
No other translator has made the narratives so clear or strong, and the distinctive power of the work lies in the clarity of the storytelling . . . This Hell is a magnificent feat of reimagining of one of the greatest of all human creations -- Joseph Farrell * * Herald * * PRAISE FOR ALASDAIR GRAY: A necessary genius -- ALI SMITH The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott -- ANTHONY BURGESS Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake * * Observer * * A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today -- WILL SELF One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language -- IRVINE WELSH Alasdair Gray is one of the most important living writers in English * * New York Times * *
