Ten Tales Tall and True (17 page)

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

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

Verse:
OLD NEGATIVES.

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

Anthology:
THE BOOK OF
PREFACES.

This collection was first published in 1993

This electronic edition published in 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Copyright © 1993 by Alasdair Gray

The moral right of the author has been asserted

Seven of these tales have been already published: A New World in
Fiction Magazine
, March 1987; The Marriage Feast, entitled Jesus Christ, in
The Sunday Independent
, 17 March 1991; Homeward Bound,
New Writing
, Spring 1992; Loss of the Golden Silence,
Bête Noire
, Christmas 1992; Houses and Small Labour Parties,
Living Issues
, August 1993; You,
Casablanca
, May 1993; Time Travel,
The Review of Contemporary Fiction
, U.S.A. 1993; Mr Meikle and The Trendelenburg Position,
The Glasgow Herald
, Summer 1993:

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