McGrotty and Ludmilla - (Canons) by Alasdair Gray (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>A fantastical comedy from the </b><b>irreplaceable</b><b> Alasdair Gray</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Mungo McGrotty's career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and deadly) Harbinger Report, he realises he can blackmail his way to the very top. <p/>This twisted Grayian retelling of the Aladdin story under the Thatcher regime sees our hero rise from pawn to power. But at what cost?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Gray is a true original, a twentieth century William Blake-- "Observer"<br><br>A necessary genius--ALI SMITH<br><br>Gray transformed our expectations of what Scottish literature could be--VAL McDERMID<br><br>One of the brightest intellectual and creative lights Scotland has known in modern times--NICOLA STURGEON<br><br>One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language--IRVINE WELSH<br><br>The best Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott--ANTHONY BURGESS<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in 1934, <b>Alasdair Gray</b> graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when <i>Lanark</i> was published by Canongate, he authored, designed and illustrated seven novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage, radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, <i>A Life in Pictures.</i><i> </i>In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Saltire Society.<i> </i>He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
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