Scottish Interest Books

Lanark: A Life in Four Books is Alasdair Gray's masterpiece and one of the defining novels of modern Scottish literature. First published in 1981 a...

Lean Tales, by James Kelman, Agnes Owens, and Alasdair Gray. A compilation of short stories by 3 fine Scottish authors, loosely linked along the th...

Saltire Self Portraits; Alasdair Gray.  A concise autobiographical work by Alasdair Gray, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in m...

The Fall of Kelvin Walker, Alasdair Gray's third novel, is a sharply observed satire of ambition, identity and the pursuit of success in 1960s Brit...

The Little White Bird is one of J.M. Barrie's most enduring and imaginative works, first published in 1902 and notable for introducing the characte...

Grafts/Takes by Edwin Morgan. This poetry collection by Edwin Morgan has an interesting reversible "dos-à-dos" format, as the 2 collections of 'Gra...

Fleck is Alasdair Gray's verse adaptation of Goethe's Faust, presented as a dramatic script and illustrated throughout by the author. Revising and ...

Old Negatives; four verse sequences by Alasdair Gray.  A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art a...

A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in mo...

The Mathematical Discoveries of Newton is based on two lectures delivered by H. W. Turnbull to the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Mathemati...

The History Maker; A science fiction novella by Alasdair Gray.  A scare pre-publication uncorrected proof copy of this wonderful work by Alasdair G...

A History Maker, by Alasdair Gray. A wonderful work by Alasdair Gray, probably the most important contributor to Scottish art and literature in mo...

Scottish Book Collector, Vol. 2, Issue 3, February/March 1990, including Alasdair Gray's Storyboard for the film of Lanark An interesting issue of ...

Brian Moore, Alasdair Gray, John McGahern; A Bibliography of Their First Editions, by David Rees. Colophon Press Bibliography Series No. 1. The tit...

The Ends of Their Tethers; Thirteen Sorry Stories, by Alasdair Gray. Note: When fully published the title changed slightly to become "The Ends of O...

A Scent of Water, by Carl MacDougall. Illustrated by Alasdair Gray. A collection of 18 folk tales from both traditional and original sources, by Ca...

The Oxford History of England. Complete in 17 Volumes, including the Consolidated Index. Edited by Sir George Clark. Published by Oxford University...

Robert Freke Gould's History of Freemasonry is one of the landmark nineteenth century studies of the subject, long regarded as a foundational work ...

Robert Bloomfield was one of the most popular labouring-class poets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, celebrated for his sympa...

James Thomson's The Seasons was one of the most celebrated and widely read poems of the eighteenth century, combining descriptive nature poetry wit...

A uniform group of volumes from The Uniform Edition of the Works of J. M. Barrie, published primarily by Hodder and Stoughton, comprising a selecti...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

A substantial and handsomely bound six-volume set of John Richard Green's celebrated histories of England, comprising the complete four-volume Hist...

Her Infinite Variety, edited by E. V. Lucas and first published in 1908, is a charming Edwardian anthology celebrating literary portraits o...