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List of Scottish novelists is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish novelists. It includes novelists of all genres writing in English, Scots, Gaelic or any other language. Novelists writing in the Scottish tradition are part of the development of the novel in Scotland. This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scottish writers.
This is a list of Scottish characters from fiction. Authors of romantic fiction have been influential in creating the popular image of Scots as kilted Highlanders, noted for their military prowess, bagpipes , rustic kailyard and doomed Jacobitism .
S. The Sacred Art of Stealing; St. Ives (novel) Scarlett (Cassidy novel) Scotch on the Rocks; Secret of the Sands; Self-Control (novel) Shuggie Bain; Sick Heart River
The Dear Green Place, published in 1966, was his only completed work, but it won four major awards and has been listed as one of the best 100 Scottish novels of all time. [2] The title refers to a colloquial nickname for Hind's birthplace and hometown of Glasgow.
Frederic Lindsay (12 August 1933 – 31 May 2013) [1] was a Scottish crime writer, who was born in Glasgow and lived in Edinburgh.He was a full-time writer from 1979 and previously worked as a lecturer, teacher and library assistant.
By the 1770s about thirty novels were being printed in Britain and Ireland every year and there is plentiful evidence that they were being read, particularly by women and students in Scotland. Scotland and Scottish authors made a modest contribution to this early development. About forty full length prose books were printed in Scotland before 1800.