The Vintage book of contemporary Scottish fiction
By: edited and with an introduction by Peter Kravitz.
Contributors: Kravitz, Peter.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Subjects: Scottish fiction -- 20th century.; Short stories, Scottish; Scotland -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Other titles: Picador book of contemporary Scottish fiction.
Description: The anthology features such stories as James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines, on the life of a bus conductor in Glasgow, Alison Fell's There's Tradition for You, an art model's rant, and Duncan McLean's Hours of Darkness, the impact on a community of the arrival of a stranger.
Table of contents: value: When Shankland comes / Agnes Owens; value: from In the middle of the wood / Iain Crichton Smith; value: Mary and the seal / Duncan Williamson; value: from After Colette / Joan Lingard; value: My childhood / Bill Douglas; value: from Lanark / Alasdair Gray; value: The fade / Jeff Torrington; value: At the bar / William McIlvanney; value: In the bare lands / Allan Massie; value: A monk's tail / Stanley Robertson; value: Original sin / John Herdman; value: from The lights below / Carl MacDougall; value: The political piano / Douglas Dunn; value: from It might have been Jerusalem / Thomas Healy; value: Honest / Tom Leonard; value: from Cells of Knowledge / Sian Hayton; value: from The busconductor Hines / James Kelman; value: Phyllis Marlowe: Only diamonds are forever / Liz Lochhead; value: There's tradition for you / Alison Fell; value: from A sparrow's flight / Margaret Elphinstone; value: Undue haste / Liz Heron; value: Brilliant / Alan Spence; value: from Electric brae / Andrew Greig; value: from A very quiet street / Frank Kuppner; value: Not about the kids / Brian McCabe; value: La plume de ma tante / Ronald Frame; value: All the little loved ones / Dilys Rose; value: from Dreams of sex and stage diving / Martin Millar; value: Seven magpies / Candia McWilliam; value: from The trick is to keep breathing / Janice Galloway; value: from The bridge / Iain Banks; value: Watch out, the world's behind you / Joseph Mills; value: from Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh; value: The last black Hoose / Robert Alan Jamieson; value: A deep hole / Ian Rankin; value: from Pfitz / Andrew Crumey; value: from Trumpet / Jackie Kay; value: Life on a Scottish council estate vol. 1 / Gordon Legge; value: The unthinkable happens to people every day / Ali Smith; value: The farmer's wife / Frank Shon; value: Hours of darkness / Duncan McLean; value: Incidents on the road / Bridget Penney; value: The man who walks / Alan Warner; value: from Looking for the possible dance / A. L. Kennedy; value: St Andrew's Day / Mark Fleming; value: Glass cheques; value: Andrew O'Hagan.