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I read The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway in a miserable student flat-share, venturing into the orange-walled living room only during the hours my horrible flatmate was out working, where I’d fold in on myself on a chair by the window. It overlooked a messy but green courtyard and other tenements.
The signs of life were a comforting connection to the world; women across the way washing dishes or moving around the room; on one occasion kissing extravagantly by the window, dispelling my assumption they were sisters.
Alasdair Gray at home in 1983, two years after Lanark was published (Picture: Donald MacLeod)
Nicola Sturgeon says books including Scabby Queen and Lockdown got her through 2020
The First Minister s list included Scottish titles such as Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes and Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut Shuggie Bain.
Nicola Sturgeon is an avid fan of reading. (Image: Colin Hattersley/PA)
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