Loving Alasdair Gray

A special event around the memoir 'Loving Alasdair' and short film, 'Unlikely Murals, Mostly'.

Author May Hooper will be joining us at The Birks Cinema on Sunday, 2 November at 6:30pm. Come and meet May. Hear her talk about Alasdair and all the fun and heartache which she had with him and his family. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

May Hooper is a woman who knew Alasdair Gray quite profoundly. He was physically attracted to her. She was wildly fond of him. He remains a major part of her life.

A reviewer of May Hooper's Memoir wrote:
It is the unembarrassed intimacy of this account that impresses the reader most deeply. There is no hiding from the directness of the memoir: how May Hooper and Alasdair Gray met, how their friendship, and what can only be described as their love for each other, developed, over four decades. But the book is also more than an account of the relationship, more than a portrait of a major writer, more than a memoir of the remarkable woman who is its author: it is also a major part of the great jigsaw of Scottish social literary history, social life in Glasgow and in Scotland more generally. Scottish literary history has been remarkably lacking in accounts such as this. Very few full-scale biographies have taken us so intimately into the social, urban, civic, personal and cultural worlds of modern Scotland and for that reason alone, this would be a commendable book.

From filmmaker Kevin Cameron, 'Unlikely Murals, Mostly', a 25min film about Alasdair's mural work.