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1 Alasdair Gray, Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (London: Picador, 1994), p. 243.

2 On Glasgow fiction generally, see Moira Burgess, Imagine a City: Glasgow in Fiction (Glendaruel: Argyll, 1998), and the same writer’s The Glasgow Novel: A Complete Guide, 3rd edn (Hamilton: The Scottish Library Association, 1999).

3 Margery McCulloch, Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), p. 28.

4 Critical studies which treat Muir’s fiction and autobiography together include: P. H. Butter, Edwin Muir (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1962); Elgin W. Mellown, Edwin Muir (Boston: Twayne, 1979); and Margery McCulloch, Edwin Muir: Poet, Critic and Novelist.

5 McCulloch, p. 29.

6 Selected Letters of Edwin Muir, ed. by P. H. Butter (London: Hogarth Press, 1974), p. 67.

7 Douglas Gifford, The Dear Green Place? The Novel in the West of Scotland (Glasgow: Third Eye Centre, 1985), p. 7.

8 See Professor Butter’s introduction to the 1982 Paul Harris edition of Poor Tom.

9 Chapman, 52 (Spring 1988), a special Hendry number, contains much useful information on the writer’s life and work. See also the biographical note to J. F. Hendry, Marimarusa (Thurso: Caithness Books, 1978).

10 On the New Apocalypse, see J. F. Hendry, ‘Apocalypse Now: The Image and the Myth’, Chapman, 31 (Winter 1981/ 82), 45–54.

11 Cairns Craig, The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp. 124–5.

12 Douglas Gifford, ‘A New Diversity’, Books in Scotland, 26 (Winter 1987), 6–14 (p. 14).

13 Isobel Murray and Bob Tait, Ten Modern Scottish Novels (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984), p. 123.

14 Craig, p. 54.

15 Murray and Tait, p. 143.

16 John Lloyd, ‘A Novelist in the Mirror: An Interview with Gordon M. Williams’, Scottish International (August 1971), 22–8 (p. 28).

17 This term was coined by Beat Witschi in his Glasgow Urban Writing and Postmodernism: A Study of Alasdair Gray’s Fiction (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991).

Liam McIlvanney