xxxvi, 555 p. ; 21 cm

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

Originally published as: The Picador book of contemporary Scottish fiction. London : Picador, 1997

When Shankland comes / Agnes Owens -- from In the middle of the wood / Iain Crichton Smith -- Mary and the seal / Duncan Williamson -- from After Colette / Joan Lingard -- My childhood / Bill Douglas -- from Lanark / Alasdair Gray -- The fade / Jeff Torrington -- At the bar / William McIlvanney -- In the bare lands / Allan Massie -- A monk's tail / Stanley Robertson -- Original sin / John Herdman -- from The lights below / Carl MacDougall -- The political piano / Douglas Dunn -- from It might have been Jerusalem / Thomas Healy -- Honest / Tom Leonard -- from Cells of Knowledge / Sian Hayton --from The busconductor Hines / James Kelman -- Phyllis Marlowe: Only diamonds are forever / Liz Lochhead -- There's tradition for you / Alison Fell -- from A sparrow's flight / Margaret Elphinstone -- Undue haste / Liz Heron -- Brilliant / Alan Spence -- from Electric brae / Andrew Greig -- from A very quiet street / Frank Kuppner -- Not about the kids / Brian McCabe -- La plume de ma tante / Ronald Frame -- All the little loved ones / Dilys Rose -- from Dreams of sex and stage diving / Martin Millar -- Seven magpies / Candia McWilliam -- from The trick is to keep breathing / Janice Galloway -- from The bridge / Iain Banks -- Watch out, the world's behind you / Joseph Mills -- from Trainspotting / Irvine Welsh -- The last black Hoose / Robert Alan Jamieson -- A deep hole / Ian Rankin -- from Pfitz / Andrew Crumey -- from Trumpet / Jackie Kay -- Life on a Scottish council estate vol. 1 / Gordon Legge -- The unthinkable happens to people every day / Ali Smith -- The farmer's wife / Frank Shon -- Hours of darkness / Duncan McLean -- Incidents on the road / Bridget Penney -- The man who walks / Alan Warner -- from Looking for the possible dance / A. L. Kennedy -- St Andrew's Day / Mark Fleming --Glass cheques -- Andrew O'Hagan

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