Independence An Argument for Home Rule
- 12 Jun 2014
- 9781782111696
- £12.99
- 144 pp
- 135×214mm
- 12 Jun 2014
- 9781782111733
- £10.39
- 128 pp
In a few words
A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray
In a few words
A polemic on the case for Scottish independence by the writer, artist, thinker and cultural icon, Alasdair Gray
A necessary genius
Ali Smith
One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language
Irvine Welsh
A necessary genius
Ali Smith
One of the most gifted writers to have put pen to paper in the English language
Irvine Welsh
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Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world.
Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand than in big ones like Britain and the U.S.A. It describes the many differences between Scotland and England. It examines the people who choose to live north of the border. It shows Scotland’s relevance to the rest of the world. It attempts to conjure a vision of how a Scots parliament might benefit the people of this small but dynamic nation. And it tells how democracy will only truly succeed when every person believes that their vote will make a difference.
More about
the book
Gray argues that a truly independent Scotland will only ever exist when people in every home, school, croft, farm, workshop, factory, island, glen, town and city feel that they too are at the centre of the world.
Independence asks whether widespread social welfare is more possible in small nations such as Norway and New Zealand than in big ones like Britain and the U.S.A. It describes the many differences between Scotland and England. It examines the people who choose to live north of the border. It shows Scotland’s relevance to the rest of the world. It attempts to conjure a vision of how a Scots parliament might benefit the people of this small but dynamic nation. And it tells how democracy will only truly succeed when every person believes that their vote will make a difference.
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today
Will Self
If Scotland chooses independence, Gray will have been one of its unacknowledged legislators. He writes about his culture with universal resonance
A great writer, perhaps the greatest writer living in Britain today
Will Self
If Scotland chooses independence, Gray will have been one of its unacknowledged legislators. He writes about his culture with universal resonance
Alasdair Gray
View profileBorn in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting from the Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark 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, A Life in Pictures. In November 2019, he received a Lifetime Achievement award by the Saltire Society. He died in December 2019, aged eighty-five.
Alasdair Gray
View profileSince 1981, when Alasdair Gray’s first novel (Lanark: A Life in Four Books) was published by Canongate, he has published twenty books, most of them novels and short stories. In his own words, ‘Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by writing and designing books, most of them fiction.
