It’s St. Andrew’s Day! Seeing as a ceilidh’s off the cards and you’ll look a bit daft jigging in your living room, enjoy some guid Scottish writing instead. Here we’ve pulled together some recent lists of brilliant Scottish fiction and non-fiction. What would YOU recommend?
Scottish Book Trust rounded up the 2020 releases for adults and kids
This Book Week Scotland, folk across the nation have been filling their windows with their favourite reads. Below are a few of our staff choices.
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Librarian picks
Gavin’s family have gone for: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline; Star Wars Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse; Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney; Yardie by Victor Headley
Lynne’s house picked: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.
Larbert Library picks
The Larbert staff have filled the window with Children’s picture books the love and made a display of their favourite reads.
Jennifer – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Val – The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Maayan – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Lucy – Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Lindsay – The Ice Twins by Sean Thomas
Anne – Cross stitch by Diana Gabaldon
Rosie – The Hobbit – Graphic Novel edition by JRR Tolkien
Jane – The Odd Women by George Gissing
Lynn – Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
Bo’ness Library picks
Like true library staff, Bo’ness have organised their choices. And, of course, there’s a book about Bo’ness in there!
Scottish Books
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Kids
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling; Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery;The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Adult fiction
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; On the Beach by Neville Shute; Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Non fiction
Diary of Anne Frank; Life on earth by David Attenborough. Bo’ness : the fair town by William Fyfe Hendrie
