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I read this extraordinary masterpiece when it was first published in 1981 and I read it again every few years.
In the year it came out I was living in Glasgow which is where it is set. Except that in half of the book the city is transformed into a place called Unthank because Gray gives us two separate but linked narratives.
The novel begins with “Book Three” describing the nightmarish horror of a decaying de-industrialised conurbation called Unthank (meaning “evil thought”) which is seen as a sort of purgatorial afterlife or an insane version of a man’s real life. It is a dreamlike world in which people turn into dragons, hands develop mouths, arms turn into claws and start to savage their owners, time becomes elastic, night and day merge into each other, and people suddenly disappear into holes in the ground.
'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable' William Boyd
Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our compulsion to go on trying.
First published in 1981, Lanark immediately established Gray as one of Britain's leading writers.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
'The False Sister' is a page-turning story that entwines elements of love, loss, identity and what it truly feels like to be young and scared, within its tightly constructed suspense plot.
It’s 1994, and Jesse Greer’s troubled older sister, Crys, has run away from home. Shy, socially awkward Jesse assumes that she has returned to her old haunts in the big city — until he discovers Crys’ remains in the woods behind his family’s house. Traumatised, Jesse runs to his parents for help, only to find that Crys has returned home, alive.
Folklore mythology meets dark suburbia in this tale of growing up queer in 90’s USA. This novella has crossover appeal for YA fantasy and features a 12-year-old protagonist. It occupies the grey space between YA fiction and fiction for…
