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Hugh MacDiarmid Peter McCarey Ian Rankin
William McIlvanney

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Will Eisner Our current guest author,
creator of The Spirit
on our Creative Writing pages
Comics & Sequential Art
The seminal work from Eisner's ground-breaking classes at the School of Visual Art
A Contract with God
The first modern graphic novel
a must-have!
To the Heart of the Storm
Eisner's best graphic novel
another must-have!
A Life Force
What allows people to survive
the Depression and Hitler's pogroms?
Family Matter
A dark tale of the heart of darkness
in a family
Edwin Morgan Europe's greatest living poet.
Don't just take my word for it!
(Watch out for Faustus
due late 1999 from Theatre About Glasgow)
Collected Poems
Some of the best poetry in print
Virtual & Other Realities
The title alone appeals to us!
Morgan has never shunned looking
at science with a poet's eye
About Edwin Morgan
Learn why Morgan is so highly regarded
by fans, contemporaries, and peers
Hugh MacDiarmid The man who reinvented Scottish poetry for the 20th century Sellected Poems
More of the best poetry in print
Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry
One of the best works of MacDiarmid criticism ever written
by Alan Riach
(notice that fruitful ambiguity)
Peter McCarey Recent guest at the Edinburgh Festival;
a Scot living in Geneva
with a unique, European voice
Double-Click
Town Shanties
Hugh MacDiarmid & the Russians
More great criticism
and a guide to great Russian writers
Ian Rankin If you haven't read him,
you're in the minority.
City Noir at its best
Black & Blue
One of the best of
a great bunch!
William McIlvanney Before Rankin, before Taggart, there was
Laidlaw
Glasgow at its noirest
Laidlaw
The Papers of Tony Veitch
Another great Laidlaw novel