A stunning coffee table book of artists' and writers' creative responses to a unique collection of artifacts from the women's movement and social history spanning more than a century—includes Denise Mina, A. L. Kennedy, Louise Welsh, Janice Galloway, and more In collaboration with the Glasgow Women's Library, 21 Revolutions pairs 21 artists and writers with one item each from the library's archive, providing fascinating insight and response to the history of the women's movement, and creating a beautiful book of new writing and contemporary art. Glasgow Women's Library is unique, part of the international feminist art and archive movement that has proliferated since the 1970s, and its collections include an unrivaled range of artifacts and material relating to the women's movement in Scotland. Some of Scotland’s most celebrated women creatives including Jackie Kay, Jen Hadfield, Anne Donovan, Karen Campbell, Denise Mina, Elizabeth Reeder, A.L. Kennedy, Helen Fitzgerald, Zoe Wicomb, Muriel Gray, Louise Welsh, Janice Galloway, Lucy Skaer, Karla Black, Claire Barclay, Sam Ainsley, Corin Sworn, and many others have created extraordinary art, poetry, and prose across the fields of social and women's history, feminism, and equality.

21 Revolutions

Arts & Photography

Freight Books

Gutter is an award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland. The editors believed there is a need for an energetic, ambitious magazine dedicated exclusively to the best in new Scottish creative writing. Issue 02 features published and emerging writers alike, including Ron Butlin, Sophie Cooke, Linda Cracknell, Rodge Glass, Gordon Legge, Alan Bissett, Irene Hossack, Kapka Kassabova, Tom Lappin, Gregory Norminton, Christopher Wallace, and Christie Williamson.

Gutter 02

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Dougie's War is a graphic novel by acclaimed novelist and biographer Rodge Glass and artist Dave Turbitt about the legacy of the war in the Middle East and the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome on returning veterans. A fictional story, but based on meticulously researched real life experiences of Scottish veterans, Dougie's War shows that the fight doesn't end when men and women leave military service.&nbsp; Dougie Campbell is a Scottish soldier, a veteran of Afghanistan returning home to the south side of Glasgow. He has just left the British Army but cannot forget his experiences of combat. A battle rages inside him as he struggles to adjust to civilian life, trying to live with his memories and understand his need for recognition. As the pressure builds, those closest to Dougie try to intervene to help but fail to anticipate the shocking path he has chosen.&nbsp; Dougie's War is inspired by the classic and highly influential 80s World War&nbsp;I comic strip Charley's War, the first to explore the reality of war and what was then called shell shock. Key extracts from Charley's War are included here, together with moving interviews with veterans of conflicts in the Falklands, former Yugoslavia, the first Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan

Dougie's War

Comics & Graphic Novels

Glass, Rodge

Graphic Novels

Bobby is a 31 year old man with the mind of a small, frightened boy. He has run away from his privileged but abusive London home to rural Cornwall. Through an accident of fate he meets Mr Summers, a man with a terrible secret who, in atonement, has dedicated his life to burying all the little animals. Together they embark on a bizarre mission, and a savage act of revenge. All the Little Animals was Walker Hamilton's debut novel, published months before his untimely death at the age of 34. Acclaimed by writers and critics alike on publication in 1968, it has been largely forgotten. This beautifully produced edition is a long overdue republishing of this dark, disturbing but utterly charming, classic tale pertinent to our times.

All the Little Animals

Walker Hamilton

Gutter 07

Tip Tap Flat: A View of Glasgow

Louise Welsh

From tongue scraper to sushi tray to pharmaceutical preparation surface—the many ways to recycle or upcycle one's dead Kindle
In a few short years the Kindle e-reader has become one of the most iconic objects of our contemporary culture. But what happens when a Kindle dies? These 101 hilarious cartoons illustrate the many imaginative, irreverent, and often downright bizarre ways your dead Kindle can live on. The next time you're at a loss for a pet toboggan or a demonstration placard, this book will help.

101 Uses of a Dead Kindle

Searle, Adrian

Comic Strips

Hairdresser Of Harare

Tendai-Huchu

United States

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A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling, and moving narrative Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy. Struggling to compete in a prestigious university department dominated by egos and incompetents, and caught in a cycle of brief and unsatisfying affairs, she travels to a mountaintop observatory in Chile to focus on her research. There Jeanette stumbles upon evidence that will challenge the fundamentals of the universe, drawing her into conflict with her colleagues and the scientific establishment, but also casting her back to the tragic loss that defined her childhood. As the implications of her discovery gather momentum, and her relationships spiral out of control, Jeanette's own grip on reality is threatened, finally forcing her to confront the hidden past. This bittersweet debut novel blends black comedy, heartbreaking tragedy, and fascinatingly accessible science, in an intricate and beautiful examination of one woman's disintegration and journey to redemption.

The Falling Sky

Pippa Goldschmidt

Literary

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