CITY · UNITED KINGDOMBooks set in Glasgow
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16 books · 11 authors · 1935–2022
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Most-set authors
William McIlvanney (3) · Alasdair Gray (2) · Douglas Stuart (2) · Denise Mina (2) · Ian Rankin (1) · Gail Honeyman (1)
Genres
literary fiction (8) · mystery & crime (4) · fantasy (1) · thriller & suspense (1)
Books set here
Set in Glasgow (14)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Eleanor works and lives in Glasgow
How Late It Was, How Late
James Kelman
working-class Glasgow streets
Laidlaw
William McIlvanney
City where Laidlaw hunts a girl's killer through Glasgow's underworld; Kelvingrove Park murder scene
Lanark
Alasdair Gray
dystopian Unthank city
Poor Things
Alasdair Gray
late Victorian Glasgow
Strange Loyalties
William McIlvanney
City where Laidlaw investigates his brother's death; heart of the Laidlaw trilogy
The Cutting Room
Louise Welsh
Glasgow auction and underworld
The Dear Green Place
Archie Hind
1960s working-class Glasgow
The Less Dead
Denise Mina
City where a 1980s sex worker serial killer operated; Margo Dunlop traces her birth mother's unsolved murder here
The Papers of Tony Veitch
William McIlvanney
City where Laidlaw searches for missing young man Tony Veitch in Glasgow's underworld
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
East End housing estate
Garnethill
Denise Mina
Primary setting — Garnethill, Glasgow
No Mean City
Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long
Gorbals slum setting
No Mean City
Alexander McArthur
1930s slum gang territory
Notable locations in Glasgow
The Gorbals2Dennistoun, Glasgow1Garnethill1Sighthill1
Nearby books
Garnethill
Denise Mina
1 km · Garnethill
No Mean City
Alexander McArthur and H. Kingsley Long
2 km · The Gorbals
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
2 km · Sighthill
No Mean City
Alexander McArthur
2 km · The Gorbals
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
2 km · Dennistoun, Glasgow
This Is Memorial Device
David Keenan
14 km · Coatbridge
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
17 km · Airdrie
Mayflies
Andrew O'Hagan
38 km · Irvine, Ayrshire