Childrens' Top 10
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0-7 yrs
- Katie's Moose
Matthew Fitt, James Robertson and Karen Sutherland - Doing the Animal Bop
Jan Ormerod and Lindsey Gardiner - The Elephantom
Ross Collins
8-12 yrs
- The Seven Professors of the Far North
John Fardell - The Robe of Skulls
Vivian French - The Hat
Carol Ann Duffy - How the Hangman Lost His Heart
Katie Grant
12+
- Fat Boy Swim
Catherine Forde - Lucky Star
Cathy Cassidy - The Fearful
Keith Gray
Classic Scottish books
Sunset Song
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1932)
Regarded by many as the greatest Scottish novel of all time, Sunset Song is the moving story of a young woman growing up in a farming community in the north east of Scotland at the turn of the 20th century.
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
A timeless adventure for readers of all ages featuring pirates, skulduggery and buried treasure.
A Night Out with Robert Burns: The Greatest Poems
Robert Burns (arranged by Andrew O'Hagan)
No list of classic Scottish books would be complete without a mention of Robert Burns, one of the most famous poets of all time and author of Auld Lang Syne. This new edition includes responses from the acclaimed writer, Andrew O'Hagan.
Top 10 Contemporary Scottish books
The Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson
Gideon Mack is a church minister who doesn't believe in God or an afterlife. Until one day he meets someone who might be the Devil himself. . . .
Clara
Janice Galloway
An award-winning book about the life of Clara Schumann, wife of the composer Robert Schumann, mother of his five children and a talented musician in her own right.
Personality
Andrew O'Hagan
A brilliant examination of fame, Andrew O'Hagan's novel follows a child star's journey from a fish and chip shop on the Isle of Bute to the celebrity circuit in London.
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