Books set in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Glasgow

• 2020

  Shuggie Bain

  2020 · Douglas Stuart · novelSighthill, Glasgow

  1980s: a boy tries to save his drinking mother, from the tenements to a dead pit village.

• 1998

  Garnethill

  1998 · Denise Mina · crimeGarnethill, Glasgow

  A woman wakes to find her lover dead in her flat, and trusts no one but herself.

• 1994

  How Late It Was, How Late

  Si tard, il était si tard

  1994 · James Kelman · novel

  Sammy wakes up blind after a weekend drunk, and feels his way home across Glasgow.

• 1981

  Lanark

  1981 · Alasdair Gray · novel

  A sunless city called Unthank, and the Glasgow boyhood of the artist who dreamed it.

• 1977

  Laidlaw

  1977 · William McIlvanney · crimeKelvingrove Park, Glasgow

  A girl dead in Kelvingrove Park, and a detective who doubts everything but the city.