Imagine a City: Glasgow in Fiction

by Moira Burgess, Douglas Gifford (Foreword)

A readable account of how Glasgow has been presented in fiction -- through the kailyard to the enduring No Mean City gang depiction and the rich crop of Glasgow's contemporary writers.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

Moira Burgess is a novelist and literary historian, born in Campbeltown, Argyll, and now living in Glasgow. She has always seen novels and short stories as the heart of her writing.