At simultaneous ceremonies in Edinburgh and London celebrating excellence in Scottish literature, the Saltire Literary Awards 2015 Shortlists were announced.
2015 Saltire Literary Awards Shortlists
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Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year Award:
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Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal
Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930
Dr. Tanja Bueltman
(Liverpool University Press) |
Microbes and the Fetlar Man: The Life of Sir William Watson Cheyne
Jane Coutts
(Humming Earth)
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The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural Politics
Corey Gibson
(Edinburgh University
Press)
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The Native Woodlands of Scotland
Scott Wilson
(Edinburgh University
Press)
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Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award:
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A Chasm in Time:
Scottish War Art
and Artists in the Twentieth Century
Patricia R. Andrew
(Birlinn)
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A History of Drinking; The Scottish Pub
since 1700
Anthony Cooke
(Edinburgh University Press)
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John Knox
Jane Dawson
(Yale University Press)
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The Going Down of the Sun:
The Great War and a rural Lewis community
Donald A Morrison
(Acair)
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Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award:
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Killochries
Jim Carruth
(Freight) |
Cream of the Well
Valerie Gillies
(Luath Press) |
Not All Honey
Roddy Lumsden
(Bloodaxe Books) |
The Good Dark
Ryan Van Winkle
(Penned in the Margins) |
Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award:
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The People's Referendum
Peter Geoghegan
(Luath Press) |
Airstream
Audrey Henderson
(Homebound Publications) |
On the Edges of Vision
Helen McClory
(Queen's Ferry Press) |
Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award:
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Young Eliot
Robert Crawford
(Jonathan Cape)
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Adventures in
Human Being
Gavin Francis
(Profile Books) |
Lifeblood
Gill Fyffe
(Freight)
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This is Scotland
Daniel Gray & Alan McCredie
(Luath Press) |
Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year Award:
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God in Ruins
Kate Atkinson
(Transworld Publishers)
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The Book of
Strange New Things
Michel Faber
(Canongate) |
Jellyfish
Janice Galloway
(Freight Books)
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Download the full Press Release HERE
The 2015 Awards ceremony will be held on 26th November 2015 in Edinburgh.
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