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100 Best Scottish Books

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John Galt - Annals of the Parish (1821)

John Galt - Annals of the Parish (1821)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

John Galt was born in Irvine, made his name in London, money in Canada, and died and was buried in Greenock in 1839. He was Coleridge’s favourite novelist and a star contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine. In the 1820s, he wrote a series of Scots stories…

Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul - An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn (2003)

Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul - An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sinn (2003)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

The title of Aonghas Pàdraig’s first full-length novel means ‘The Night Before We Sailed’. Few novels have been published in Scottish Gaelic and many of those that have are aimed at children and school pupils. This makes the author’s achievement in this…

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum - (1995)

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum - (1995)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

How many books have you read recently that begin with 25 pages conducted, quite amicably, from inside the womb? This one, told in part through the eyes of unwanted baby Ruby Lennox (conception onwards), and in part through the tragic history of her…

Ian Rankin - Black and Blue (1997)

Ian Rankin - Black and Blue (1997)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Ian Rankin is one of this country’s most prolific and commercially successful authors. No writer has chronicled the changing face of Edinburgh so vividly nor in such minute detail. Since 1987’s Knots and Crosses, the investigations of his celebrated…

Laura Hird - Born Free (1999)

Laura Hird - Born Free (1999)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Laura Hird's Born Free is a masterpiece of contemporary urban fiction. It is also a quintessentially Scottish book: funny but dark, malevolent but life affirming, poignant but endearingly compulsive. First published in 1999, Born Free followed Hird's…

Tom Nairn - The Break-Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism (1977)

Tom Nairn - The Break-Up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism (1977)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Twenty-five years after Thatcherism and the Falklands, New Labour and Iraq, who can now dispute that the British state is a strange, untamed beast, unreformed, still not fully at ease in the modern age, and shaped by memory of empire and imperial…

Brond - Frederic Lindsay (1984)

Frederic Lindsay - Brond (1984)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

A political thriller, but a cut above the disposable airport novels of Tom Clancy, Brond throws a serpentine plot of political intrigue into central Scotland. After witnessing the mysterious Brond kill a child in Kelvingrove Park, student Robert is…

Naomi Mitchison - The Bull Calves (1947)

Naomi Mitchison - The Bull Calves (1947)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Naomi Mitchison is one of Scotland’s most prolific and impressive 20th century writers, although her work has not received the attention it deserves. She wrote The Bull Calves during World War II which she spent mainly at Carradale House in Kintyre and…

Anne Donovan - Buddha Da (2003)

Anne Donovan - Buddha Da (2003)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

From the opening paragraph of Buddha Da, there is a lyrical beauty about this book. It reminds me of my favourite songs, the ones that take me somewhere special whenever I hear them. So it is with Anne Donovan’s novel. The story of Jimmy, the Glaswegian…

But n Ben A-Go-Go - Matthew Fitt (2000)

Matthew Fitt - But n Ben A-Go-Go (2000)

1 Jan 2005

Who would have thought that the third millennium would blast off with a sci-fi novel written in Scots? Matthew Fitt’s debut leaves granny’s hieland hame behind and claims the Scots language for writing that is out of this world. Fitt is one of the…

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