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100 Best Scottish Books

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Suhayl Saadi - Psychoraag (2004)

Suhayl Saadi - Psychoraag (2004)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

'Salaam alaikum, sat sri akaal, namaste ji, good evening oan this hoat, hoat summer's night. Fae the peaks ae Kirkintilloch tae the dips ae Cambuslang, fae the invisible mines ae Easterhoose tae the mudflats ae Clydebank, welcome, ivirywan, welcome…

Nan Shepherd - The Quarry Wood (1928)

Nan Shepherd - The Quarry Wood (1928)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Nan Shepherd spent most of her life teaching English in Aberdeen, walking her beloved hills and mountains and encouraging other writers. Yet she will be remembered for the three works of prose fiction she wrote in a five-year burst of creativity in her…

Walter Scott - Rob Roy (1818)

Walter Scott - Rob Roy (1818)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

The legacy of Walter Scott has done much for tourism in Scotland. Not only does the monument erected in his memory dominate Edinburgh's Princes Street, but his depiction of the Jacobite outlaw Robert MacGregor brought extra recognition to the stunning…

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus (1836)

Thomas Carlyle - Sartor Resartus (1836)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

It's always especially interesting to look at texts from a period during which writing was in flux. The years between 1820 and 1840 were tumultuous ones for literature, with a sharp contraction in the production of poetry (caused, in part, by an…

Toni Davidson - Scar Culture (1999)

Toni Davidson - Scar Culture (1999)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

A challenging and at times deeply disturbing read, Scar Culture is a British One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and a dark, twisted spellbinder of a novel. Concentrating on the case studies of three abused children, you become privy to some of the most…

Margaret Elphinstone - The Sea Road (2000)

Margaret Elphinstone - The Sea Road (2000)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Historical novels are not easy to get right. If they are under-researched, they don't ring true. If they are over-researched, they groan under a burden of detail that the author was delighted to discover but which may have no place in the story, or was…

Jimmy Boyle - A Sense of Freedom (1977)

Jimmy Boyle - A Sense of Freedom (1977)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

This is one of the most important books ever published about crime and punishment in Britain. A Sense of Freedom is the autobiographical account of how a boy from the Gorbals grew up in the gang culture of the 60s to become 'Scotland's Most Violent…

George Blake - The Shipbuilders (1935)

George Blake - The Shipbuilders (1935)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Much as shipbuilding was the industry upon which Glasgow was built, so The Shipbuilders is one of the twin pillars upon which its literary heritage is constructed. Published in 1935 - the same year as McArthur and Long's No Mean City it gives a humane…

Gordon Williams - The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969)

Gordon Williams - The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969)

1 Jan 2005

The Siege of Trencher's Farm achieved notoriety when it was adapted and released as the nasty, brutish Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah. The British Board of Film Censors subsequently banned the movie until 2002 because of its graphic violence and a…

Neil M Gunn - The Silver Darlings (1941)

Neil M Gunn - The Silver Darlings (1941)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Like Neil Miller Gunn, I’m the seventh of nine children. I know what it means to be caught between the Broons and the Waltons, part Bairn, part John Boy. Growing up, I knew Gunn was a founding figure in the Scottish Renaissance, but the only books of…

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