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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.
Bokklubben World Library (Norwegian: Verdensbiblioteket) is a series of classical books, mostly novels, published by the Norwegian Book Clubs [] since 2002. It is based on a list of the hundred best books, as proposed by one hundred writers from fifty-four countries, compiled and organized in 2002 by the Book Club. [1]
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.
Book of Deer, folio 5r, containing the text of the Gospel of Matthew from 1:18 through 1:21. Beginning in the later eighth century, Viking raids and invasions may have forced a merger of the Gaelic and Pictish crowns that culminated in the rise of Cínaed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin) in the 840s, which brought to power the House of Alpin and the creation of the Kingdom of Alba. [10]
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
In the early twentieth century there was a new surge of activity in Scottish literature, influenced by modernism and resurgent nationalism, known as the Scottish Renaissance. The leading figure in the movement was Hugh MacDiarmid who attempted to revive the Scots language as a medium for serious literature, developing a form of Synthetic Scots ...
A Scots Quair is a trilogy by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north-east of Scotland during the early 20th century. It consists of three novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). The first is widely regarded as an important classic (voted Scotland's ...
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.