| Woodcuts
(Available) |
| This
is the first of a series of booklets planned with Perjink
Press. This booklet features six short stories: Angels,
14, Parvis Componere Magna: The Bunnet, Abracadabra,
Mozzarella Shavings, and Gaberlunzie. |
| Price: £4.99.
P&P: £0.51 |
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| Beloit
Fiction Journal: Volume 5 Number 1, Autumn 1989 (Available) |
| A rare
collection of short stories from a selection of contemporary
Scottish authors: Alasdair Gray, A.L. Kennedy, George
Mackay Brown, James Kelman, Susan Campbell, Iain Chrichton
Smith, Alan Spence, Elspeth Davie, Naiomi Mitchison,
Rosa Macpherson, Carl MacDougall, John Herdman, Janice
Galloway, Duncan Williamson. Published in 1989. Reissued
as a Minerva Paperback. |
| Price: £3.00.
P&P: £2.00 |
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| Prosepiece
(Available) |
| A booklet
published in 1979 by Pavement Press in Fife featuring
six short stories: Mrs Bernstein, Through the Sylvan
Gloom I Wander Day and Night, A Goitre At Her Neck,
Honeysuckle, A Sunny Day in Glasgow Long Ago, and Wednesday,
2.30am. |
| Price: £1.49.
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| Elvis
Is Dead (Available) |
Elvis
is Dead is a book of nineteen short stories written
over a period of eight years. The themes may be serious
but there is humour at every turn, musical references
abound and throughout there is a lack of sentimentality.
"I have always been a great admirer of Carl MacDougall's
stories. Stylistically they are very clipped and thematically
they are moving and poignant. He is particularly good
at dealing with the emotions of people who are trapped,
either by marriage or by their own natures, as is shown
by 'The Lady on Horseback' and 'A Soldier's Tale'.
The stories are set down without any attempt to point
to a moral - "this is the way life is" -
and the endings are always true to their psychological
development. I think he is a real short story writer,
a rare breed. He deserves to be very widely known.
He is simply a very good writer." IAIN
CRICHTON SMITH . Published by The Mariscat Press
1986, (With Scottish Arts Council assistance). |
| Price: £4.00.
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| The
One Legged Tap Dancer (Available) |
A short
story of a working class man, trying to earn a living.
"We got twentyfive pence an hour washing dishes;
and anything we fancied left on the plates. Mary had
four kids and no husband. She was always there before me, working away. Her eldest
daughter looked after the kids. Mary was very particular about her
work, didn't like the idea of people eating from badly
washed plates. She chattered and sang while we worked
and I felt I'd got to know her family very well. One
Friday she wasn't there. She didn't appear on the Saturday
and I worked her Sunday shift, flat rate. On Monday
night she looked pale and drawn. I asked what happened.
Couldn't get anybody to watch the weans, she said.
What about Ellen?
Ellen got run over by a motor Friday night.
Is she okay?
She was buried this afternoon. Lambhill.
She put the plate on the rack, wiped her hands on her
apron and faced me. The polis have still got her clothes,
she said. Do you think if I asked them they'd give
me the shoes? They might fit wee Mary."
Published by Print Studio Press, 1981. Cover design
by Jimmy Cosgrove. |
| Price: £1.50.
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