Global Information Lookup Global Information

Scottish Book of the Year information


Scottish Book of the Year may refer to:

  • Scottish Book of the Year, one of the Saltire Society Literary Awards
  • Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year, one of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

and 23 Related for: Scottish Book of the Year information

Request time (Page generated in 1.1524 seconds.)

Scottish Book of the Year

Last Update:

Scottish Book of the Year may refer to: Scottish Book of the Year, one of the Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book...

Word Count : 72

Jackie Kay

Last Update:

British Book Awards deciBel Writer of the Year 2009: Scottish Book of the Year (shortlist), The Lamplighter 2011: Scottish Book of the Year (shortlist)...

Word Count : 1996

Saltire Society Literary Awards

Last Update:

Scottish authors or about Scotland, and are awarded in several categories. The first Saltire Society Book Award was given in 1937, the year after the...

Word Count : 1589

John Burnside

Last Update:

2002: Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award (shortlist), for The Light Trap 2002: T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist), for The Light Trap 2005: Forward...

Word Count : 1504

Shuggie Bain

Last Update:

working-class Glasgow, Scotland. The novel was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, making Stuart the second Scottish winner of the prize in its 51-year history, following...

Word Count : 3513

Bloody Scotland

Last Update:

for "the best Scottish Crime book of the year" (so named in 2016 for writer William McIlvanney (1936-2015), who has been called "the Godfather of Tartan...

Word Count : 423

Lakeland Book of the Year

Last Update:

The Lakeland Book of the Year, also known as the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year is an award given annually for a book "set in or featuring Cumbria...

Word Count : 1051

Scottish Book Trust

Last Update:

Scottish Book Trust is a national charity based in Edinburgh, Scotland promoting literature, reading and writing in Scotland. Scottish Book Trust works...

Word Count : 770

British Medical Association

Last Update:

awards including "Illustrated book", "Student textbook", "Young author"; and an overall "Medical Book of the Year". The Association Medal is awarded to...

Word Count : 3620

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

Last Update:

The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, formerly known as the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award...

Word Count : 826

William Dalrymple

Last Update:

India-based Scottish historian and art historian, as well as a curator, broadcaster and critic. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the world's...

Word Count : 3310

Alasdair Gray

Last Update:

1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels...

Word Count : 5461

The Last King of Scotland

Last Update:

dictator from 1971 to 1979, the novel, which interweaves fiction and historical fact, is written as the memoir of a fictional Scottish doctor in Amin's employ...

Word Count : 803

Kathleen Jamie

Last Update:

Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. The Overhaul was published in September 2012. It won the 2012 Costa poetry award. For the last decade[when...

Word Count : 847

William McIlvanney

Last Update:

is the story of Tam Docherty, the grandson of the hero of Docherty. It won the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award. Laidlaw (1977), The Papers...

Word Count : 1433

Poor Things

Last Update:

Poor Things: Episodes from the Early Life of Archibald McCandless M.D., Scottish Public Health Officer is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published...

Word Count : 837

Beside the Ocean of Time

Last Update:

the Ocean of Time (1994) is a novel by Scottish writer George Mackay Brown. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year...

Word Count : 98

Scotland

Last Update:

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's...

Word Count : 22831

Leila Aboulela

Last Update:

Aboulela’s third novel and the winner of the Scottish Book of the Year award for fiction. Lyrics Alley is directly inspired by the life of her uncle, poet Hassan...

Word Count : 3435

Wheel of the Year

Last Update:

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by a range of modern pagans, marking the year's chief solar events (solstices...

Word Count : 4745

A Kind of Spark

Last Update:

autistic 11-year-old [who] seeks to memorialize the women once tried as witches in her Scottish village." The book was commissioned as a 2023 CBBC television...

Word Count : 503

Costa Book Awards

Last Update:

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the...

Word Count : 1073

Scottish Album of the Year Award

Last Update:

The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is an award given annually for an outstanding album produced by a Scottish artist. The award was launched in...

Word Count : 783

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net