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Complicity
by Iain Banks

ISBN 0743200187 (0-7432-0018-7)
Softcover, Scribner

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Living for his vices, the greatest of which involves writing front-page bylines, journalist Cameron Colley receives information about a high-stakes conspiracy from an anonymous source, until the men he exposes suddenly begin to die. Reprint. NYT. [via]
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Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg

ISBN 067941732X (0-679-41732-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Introduction by Roger Lewis [via]
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The Crow Road
by Iain Banks

ISBN 0349103232 (0-349-10323-2)
Hardcover, Abacus

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TV trade edition paperback, fine in specially printed TV dw (fine (as new)) [via]
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- The Crow Road: ISBN 0349109079 (0-349-10907-9)
  Hardcover, Abacus
- The Crow Road: ISBN 0349103232 (0-349-10323-2)
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Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott, Gillen D'Arcy Wood

ISBN 1593082460 (1-59308-246-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury Set in the reign of Richard I, Coeur de Lion, Ivanhoe is packed with memorable incidents - sieges, ambushes and combats - and equally memorable characters: Cedric of Rotherwood, the die-hard Saxon; his ward Rowena; the fierce Templar knight, Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert; the Jew, Isaac of York, and his beautiful, spirited daughter Rebecca; Wamba and Gurth, jester and swineherd respectively. Scott explores the conflicts between the Crown and the powerful Barons, between the Norman overlords and the conquered Saxons, and between Richard and his scheming brother, Prince John. At the same time he brings into the novel the legendary Robin Hood and his band, and creates a brilliant, colourful account of the age of chivalry with all its elaborate rituals and costumes and its values of honour and personal glory. [via]
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Ivanhoe
by Scott, Walter, Sr.

ISBN 0812565657 (0-8125-6565-7)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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The first of Scott's Waverley novels burst upon an astonished world in 1814. Its publication marked the emergence of the modern novel in the western world, influencing all the great nineteenth-century writers. This handsome new edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels captures the original power and freshness of his best-loved novels. [via]
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Ivanhoe
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517626373 (0-517-62637-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Kidnapped
by Robert Louis Stevenson

ISBN 1853261173 (1-85326-117-3)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition

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Set in Scotland after the Jacobite rebellion, young David Balfour leaves home and goes to the sinister House of Shaws. There, he finds himself kidnapped, the victim of his uncle's plot to cheat him of his inheritance, aboard a ship bound for America. He teams up with the Jacobite loyalist and spy, Alan Breck and they take on the ship's crew in a courageous battle but are soon shipwrecked. Later, they find themselves suspected of the murder of 'Red Fox', a notorious enemy of the Jacobeans. They flee across the Highlands in a perilous journey back to David's home where he finally claims his inheritance. First serialised in Young Folks magazine in 1886, and issued as a book later that year, Kidnapped provided much of the inspiration for John Buchan's The Thirty Nine Steps and a generation of subsequent thrillers. [via]
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Lanark
by Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway

ISBN 1841951838 (1-84195-183-8)
Softcover, Canongate Books Ltd

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Written under the influence of World War II, the British welfare state, the Scottish education system, Poe, Carroll, Joyce, Kafka, Pinocchio, and the Bible, this cult classic paints a surreal portrait of the modern world. "It should be widely read" (New York Times). Illustrated by the Author.
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
by Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway

ISBN 184195120X (1-84195-120-X)
Hardcover, Canongate Books

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Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark (first published in 1981) immediately established him as one of the most important Scottish voices of his generation and this astounding work as one of the key British novels of the last century. Magnificent in its reach and unequalled in the adulation of its critical response, Lanark is a massive book.
Perversely we start our reading with Book 3--the hero of this and the last book in the quartet, the eponymous Lanark, lives in a bizarre and fantastical future in a grey, dreary city called Unthank. He doesn't remember how he got there nor who he really is. He hangs around a local cafe with some other young people whose values and mores he can't quite figure. All around people are disappearing. Then he contracts dragonhide... and disappears too. He wakes in an institute and is told the sad but instructional tale of Duncan Thaw (the boy he used to be, the boy, in a sense, Alasdair Gray used to be).
Duncan, unknowingly speaking of the epic of which he is the centre, who we meet as a child and watch grow into an artist , says "I want to write a modern Divine Comedy with illustrations in the style of William Blake." And it is Duncan's story that is the heart of Lanark--and what a poignant, heart-breaking tale it is. From a boy who can never accept or offer or understand love, who cannot connect, to an artist who cannot accept that he cannot have the final word--both in his own life and in his art--Duncan's tale is a beautifully crafted coming-of-age story.
Lanark is a work of huge imagination and wonderful range; it is about all of our selves, how we make them and make them up; it is about place and what that means for identity and it is about love--how we can learn to love our selves, or fail to, how we need to love, both ourselves and others, to create communities in which we can create art that will promote a continuing project of place in which we can love each other better. Lanark is peerless. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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- Lanark: A Life in Four Books: ISBN 080761162X (0-8076-1162-X)
  Softcover, Braziller Incorporated, George
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  Hardcover, Canongate Books
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Marabou Stork Nightmares
by Irvine Welsh

ISBN 0393315630 (0-393-31563-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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In a hospital room in Edinburgh, Roy Strang lies in a coma--which doesn't save him from reliving the sordid developments that brought him to the state. He seems at times to be engaged in a strange quest in a surrealistic Africa to eradicate the evil predator-scavenger bird--the marabou stork--before it drives away the peace-loving flamingos from Lake Torto. [via]
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- Marabou Stork Nightmares: ISBN 0393038459 (0-393-03845-9)
  Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Marabou Stork Nightmares: ISBN 0393315630 (0-393-31563-0)
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg

ISBN 1419179012 (1-4191-7901-2)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, James Hogg's masterpiece is a brilliant psychological study of religious fanaticism and the power of evil. Led on by his sinister companion, Gil-Martin, Robert Wringhim commits a series of atrocious crimes. As the novel progresses, however, and the complexity of Wringhim's mind is revealed, the reader begins to doubt whether Gil-Martin even exists. This edition of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner places the work within the context of Calvinism, Scottish political and constitutional history, and early psychological theories of "double consciousness." A wide-ranging introduction discusses the novel in relation to its setting as well as to the period in which it was composed. [via]
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by John Carey, James Hogg

ISBN 0192553194 (0-19-255319-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.

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THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
AND CONFESSIONS
OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

WITH A DETAIL OF CURIOUS TRADITIONARY FACTS, AND
OTHER EVIDENCE, BY THE EDITOR

By

James Hogg
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Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner
by James Hogg

ISBN 3829030096 (3-8290-3009-6)
Hardcover, Konemann

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped or the Lad With the Silver Button
by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barry Menikoff

ISBN 0873281772 (0-87328-177-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr

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Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh

ISBN 0393314804 (0-393-31480-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. [via]
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Trainspotting: A Screenplay
by Irvine Welsh, John Hodge

ISBN 0786882212 (0-7868-8221-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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Trainspotting is based on the novel by Irvine Welsh. It is always nice to compare the book/screenplay or novel or whatever format the original is in, to the movie. As always things cut from the story when made into a movie - are in the book. [via]
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The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks

ISBN 0684853159 (0-684-85315-9)
Softcover, Scribner

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"I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped. I already knew something was going to happen; the Factory told me."
Those lines begin one of the most infamous of contemporary Scottish novels. The narrator, Frank Cauldhame, is a weird teenager who lives on a tiny island connected to mainland Scotland by a bridge. He maintains grisly Sacrifice Poles to serve as his early warning system and deterrent against anyone who might invade his territory.
Few novelists have ever burst onto the literary scene with as much controversy as Iain Banks in 1984. The Wasp Factory was reviled by many reviewers on account of its violence and sadism, but applauded by others as a new and Scottish voice--that is, a departure from the English literary tradition. The controversy is a bit puzzling in retrospect, because there is little to object to in this novel, if you're familiar with genre horror.
The Wasp Factory is distinguished by an authentically felt and deftly written first-person style, delicious dark humor, a sense of the surreal, and a serious examination of the psyche of a childhood psychopath. Most readers will find that they sympathize with and even like Frank, despite his three murders (each of which is hilarious in an Edward Gorey fashion). It's a classic of contemporary horror. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Whit, or Isis amongst the Unsaved
by Iain Banks

ISBN 0316914363 (0-316-91436-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown

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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Transpoitting
by I. Welsh

ISBN 843396643X (84-339-6643-X)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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- Transpoitting: ISBN 843396643X (84-339-6643-X)
  Softcover, Ld Books Inc

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