The Picador book of contemporary Scottish fiction Book

	Introduction
	When Shankland Comes	3
	from In the Middle of the Wood	19
	Mary and the Seal	47
	from After Colette	57
	My Childhood	76
	from Lanark	96
	The Fade	109
	At the Bar	118
	In the Bare Lands	121
	A Monk's Tail	127
	Original Sin	133
	from The Lights Below	138
	The Political Piano	147
	from It Might Have Been Jerusalem	159
	Honest	173
	from Cells of Knowledge	177
	from The Busconductor Hines	189
	Phyllis Marlowe: Only Diamonds Are Forever	215
	There's Tradition For You	219
	from A Sparrow's Flight	223
	Undue Haste	236
	Brilliant	242
	from Electric Brae	255
	from A Very Quiet Street	270
	Not About the Kids	281
	La Plume de Ma Tante	289
	All the Little Loved Ones	294
	from Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving	299
	Seven Magpies	311
	from The Trick is To Keep Breathing	321
	from The Bridge	336
	Watch Out, the World's Behind You	342
	from Trainspotting	367
	The Last Black Hoose	385
	A Deep Hole	393
	from Pfitz	406
	from Trumpet	413
	Life on a Scottish Council Estate Vol. I	430
	Get Lost	439
	The Unthinkable Happens to People Every Day	442
	The Farmer's Wife	449
	Hours of Darkness	460
	Incidents on the Road	491
	The Man Who Walks	504
	from Looking for the Possible Dance	508
	St Andrew's Day	526
	Glass Cheques	542
	Biographical Notes	549
	Acknowledgements	557