Scottish Literature


Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island
Trainspotting
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
Shuggie Bain
Poor Things
The Wasp Factory
Waverley
Ivanhoe
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
So that was Kinraddie... the Scots countryside itself, fathered between a kailyard and a bonny briar bush in the lee of a house with green shutters.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon

David Daiches
Historically, the language we call Scots was a development of the Anglian speech of the Northumbrians who established their kingdom of Bernicia as far north as the Firth of Forth in the seventh century. This northern Anglo-Saxon language flourished in Lowland Scotland and emerged into a distinct language on its own, capable of rich expansion by borrowing from Latin, French and other sources with its own grammatical forms and methods of borrowing. By the time of the Makars of the fifteenth centur ...more
David Daiches, Literature and Gentility in Scotland

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