English novel L. Kennedy (born 1965) whose 2007 novel "Day" was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards. In 2007 she won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature; Alasdair Gray (born 1934) whose "" (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow. Another contemporary Scot is Irvine Welsh, whose novel "Trainspotting" (1993), gives a brutal depiction of the lives of working class Edinburgh drug users. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s, her novels include, "The Infernal Desire
A Welsh Singer (novel) in 1896. Puddicombe’s work was rejected by six publishers, after which she decided to change the title to "A Welsh Singer" under the pen name 'Allen Raine’, which then was successfully published. Puddicombe, assuming the name Allen Raine, soon became one of Wales’s most popular novelists. All of her publications focused on the life of locals in small Welsh villages and towns. It was adapted into a film starring Henry Edwards and Florence Turner in 1915. A Welsh Singer (novel) A Welsh Singer is a novel written by Anne Puddicombe in 1896. It was later adapted into a silent drama