Scotland's National Book Awards 2016 Scotland's National Book Awards 2016 - Winners Scottish Book of the Year 2016 - The Bonniest Companie, Kathleen Jamie A poetry collection by Stirling University Professor Kathleen Jamie has beaten off stiff competition from publications including a shortlisted nominee for this year’s Man Booker Prize, a historical account of the Sutherland Clearances and a first-hand report of life on death row in Pakistan to be named the 2016 Saltire Society Book of the Year. Non Fiction Book of the Year 2016 - Other People's Money, John Kay Fiction Book of the Year 2016 - His Bloody Project, Graeme Macrae History Book of the Year 2016 - Set Adrift Upon The World, James Hunter First Book of the Year 2016 - Trials on Death Row in Pakistan, Isabel Buchanan First Book of the Year 2016 - Expecting, Chitra Ramaswamy Research Book of the Year 2016 - The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland, Sebastian Verweijj Poetry Book of the Year 2016 - The Bonniest Companie, Kathleen Jamie