Items related to Waterstone's Guide to Scottish Books

Waterstone's Guide to Scottish Books - Softcover

Neil Johnstone

 
9781902603001: Waterstone's Guide to Scottish Books

Synopsis

This is a guide to the riches of Scottish writing in all its forms. Scottish fiction from Walter Scott and John Galt to Irvine Welsh and A L Kennedy. Scottish poetry from Burns to Macdiarmid, Sorley MacLean to Don Paterson. Books which illuminate Scotland's dramatic and often troubled history. Books on major Scottish artists such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Allan Ramsey. Books on whisky. Books on football. Biographies of Scotland's great, good and notorious figures. The plays of J M Barrie and the plays of James Kelman. The guide points the reader in the diresction of the very best Scottish books around, from whatever field and from whatever era. The guide also includes a number of specially commissioned articles. Janice Galloway writes about her discovery of Alisdair Gray's novel Lanark. A L Kennedy looks at the way religious extremism is reflected in Scottish literature. James Robertson examines Drink, Drugs and Debauchery in the Scottish novel. There are poems by John Burnside and Don Paterson.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.