Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection. This last section, Tales Droll and Plausible, shows that Gray’s recent twenty-first-century fiction is as uncomfortably funny and up to date as his earliest.

Reviews of Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1951-2012

* 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 * A necessary genius. — Ali Smith * A genuine experimentalist. — David Lodge