Non-Burns Night - An Excuse to Celebrate Scottish Wordsmiths
Hannah
Whether you're addressing the haggis and having a wee dram, or researching 'who is Rabbie Burns' and wondering what all the fuss is about, let the day offer a much needed boost to a dreich storm-ridden January.
Rather than focusing on that one dead auld white man (known for being a problematic sex-pest) we've put together a list of books that celebrate Scottish writing. You may find your very own 'Bard' amongst these wonderful wordsmiths.
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- The Gloaming
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- Logan, Kirsty
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- Hotel World
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- Smith, Ali
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- Goblin
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- Dundas, Ever
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- Ava Anna Ada
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- Millar, Ali
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- Hazardous Spirits
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- Anbara Salam
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- Shuggie Bain : Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
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- Stuart, Douglas
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- Deep Wheel Orcadia : A Novel
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- Harry Josephine Giles
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- Luckenbooth
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- Fagan, Jenni
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- The Bone Library
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- Fagan, Jenni
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- Bantam
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- Kay, Jackie
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- The Bonniest Companie
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- Jamie, Kathleen
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- The Cat Prince : & Other Poems
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- Pedersen, Michael
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- Another Way to Split Water
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- Alycia Pirmohamed
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- The Wrong Person to Ask
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- Lotfi, Marjorie
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- Blood Salt Spring
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- Hannah Lavery
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- The Edwin Morgan Twenties: Love
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- Morgan, Edwin, Kay, Jackie
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- The Luath Treasury of Scottish Nursery Rhymes
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- Hutton, Alasdair
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- The Living Mountain : A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
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- Shepherd, Nan, Macfarlane, Robert, Winterson, Jeanette
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- Wild Geese : A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings
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- Shepherd, Nan
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- Ashes and Stones : A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
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- Shaw, Allyson
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- Antlers of Water : Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
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- Jamie, Kathleen
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- All the Violet Tiaras : Queering the Greek Myths
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- Menzies, Jean
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- The Outrun
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- Liptrot, Amy
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- A Scots Dictionary of Nature
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- Thomson, Amanda