Books by Mary McCabe

Mary McCabe is a political activist, writer, playwright and poet from Glasgow. Her work is written in Scots, English and Gaelic. A political campaigner since her schooldays, she has decades of experience in door-to-door canvassing, attending demonstrations in Scotland and abroad, and proposing progressive change. She is now retired from her day job as researcher and editor with Glasgow City Council. Her fictionalised account of scandals in her own family tree, `Stirring the Dust' (2012), written in English, Doric and Glaswegian, was named `Paperback of the Week' in The Herald. Her work also includes the novel `Everwinding Times' (1994) and an illustrated book `Street Schemes and Stages' (1991), about cultural projects. She is active in the writers' political organisation International PEN.