Scotland's Books

  • Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature
    By Robert Crawford

    Norman McCaig, 'Poem' in C. J. Russell and J. F. Hendry, ed., Albannach (Dingwall: C. J. Russell, 1938), 20–21. 4. J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae in Liam McIlvanney, ed., Growing Up in the West (Edinburgh: Canongate Classics, ...

  • Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature
    By Robert Crawford

    Around 1540 Murdoch Nisbet, associated with a group of Ayrshire Lollards, 'digged and built a vault at the bottom of his own house'. Literally an underground intellectual, hidden in his vault Nisbet could concentrate on reading the ...

  • Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature
    By Robert Crawford

    The only A–Z dictionary of Scottish literature remains Trevor Royle's very helpful Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature (1993), but readers who want more extended scholarly treatments of the subject as a whole (including topics ...

  • Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature
    By Robert Crawford

    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland�s rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting...

  • Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature
    By Robert Crawford

    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting...