Alasdair

Instead, he became known as Alasdair na Béisde-Alasdair of the Beast.

Musings from a Stonehead 2008

The flanker Alasdair Strokosch could miss the rest of Scotland's Six Nations campaign with a fractured hand, the Scottish Rugby Union have announced.

Alasdair Strokosch set to miss rest of Scotland's Six Nations campaign 2012

It might sound like an urban myth, Alasdair, but it's almost 100% true.

Who are the greatest runners-up ever? | The Knowledge 2011

Which brings us to the events of Pin, in which Dean made the most extraordinary leap of faith and agreed to torture Alasdair – because Castiel asked him to.

Stargate novels on Kindle karenmiller 2009

Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) by Alasdair Gray is a truly mesmerising novel, veering from savage realism to surrealist strangeness of the highest order.

MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

Scotland flanker Alasdair Strokosch is expected to be out for at least a month, after fracturing his hand against Wales.

Alasdair Strokosch set to miss rest of Scotland's Six Nations campaign 2012

Writer and artist Alasdair Gray has completed a remarkable autobiography in words and pictures.

Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures Alasdair Gray 2010

Her first two solo albums 2006's Jackie Oates and 2008's The Violet Hour saw traditional material being given inventive arrangements. 2010's Hyperboreans also saw Oates working with alternative-folk musician Alasdair Roberts – and she particularly enjoys traditional and alternative sides of folk music coming together.

Jackie Oates: the new face of folk 2012

Here he chooses three paintings from different stages in his life and explains how they came aboutClick here for a gallery of more works by Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray: My life in pictures Alasdair Gray 2010

And as for the literateurs, with those at the mountaintop (novelist Alasdair Gray or national poets Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead) all long-term, left-wing independence supporters, it's difficult to see too many who would dissent from that position (crime novelist Ian Rankin plumped for the Scottish Greens, but they want a free Scotland anyway, so that's hardly heterodoxy).

Scotland's independence referendum will see a Scotterati recruitment drive | Pat Kane 2011