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
Glenda Norquay
In the complexity of its structure, its kaleidoscope of perspectives, its confrontation with the effects of the First World War, its attentiveness to experience at all life stages and it embrace of linguistic, formal and philosophical 'difficulty', The Weatherhouse is arguably the great Scottish modernist feminist novel of the period. ...more
Glenda Norquay, The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Scots people were vigorous industrialists and slum builders, but they never reconciled themselves spiritually to their own urban creations... It was better to help to keep alive the native faith and virtues and idyllic memories of the people than to remind them of the scorching fires of Moloch through which they were passing.
William Power, Literature and Oatmeal

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