LEAN TALES

Literature & Fiction

Agnes Owens

Alasdair, Gray

james-kelman

Contemporary

Morag McAlpine

Kelvin Walker is in London to make his fortune. He plans to start at the top and through his absurd ambition a megalomania surfaces that is unrelieved by his insensitive and ruthless attempts at friendship and romance. Yet is he all bad?

The Fall of Kelvin Walker

Penguin Putnam~trade

Spine creased and faded, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Poor Things

Penguin Books, Ltd.

A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the Ettrick Forest in the 23rd century. Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettrick chief, is unhappy with his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle. Only when challenged by the seductive Delilah Puddock does he learn to embrace the traditional values.

History Maker

The lives of two doctors become hopelessly entangled with a woman who was created by one of them, in a freewheeling novel set in nineteenth-century Glasgow and the Mediterranean. 15,000 first printing.

Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D. Scottish Public Health Officer

British & Irish

Harcourt

Old negatives: Four verse sequences

Poetry

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

The loves and lives of June, Senga and Donalda are told in this book which covers the period 1963 to 1990. Also featured are unhappy children, a liberal headmistress, a tobacconist`s family, a commercial traveller, a lighthouse keeper and a pimp. From the author of " Lanark" .

Something Leather

Picador

Duncan Thaw, the narrator, has to cope with a loveless family and the drudgery of growing to maturity in Glasgow. Elsewhere the author moves Thaw into fantasy when he sends him to Unthank, a city he is condemned to after his death. From the author of "Something Leather".

Lanark a Life In 4 Books

Pan Books, Ltd.

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Lean Tales

Abacus Books (Sphere)

Lanark (Paladin Books)

Paladin

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