Canongate Classics Series by Catherine Carswell

Book 4

Dance of the Apprentices

by Edward Gaitens

4.06 · 18 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1968 · 6 editions

Caught in the melting pot of social injustice, rev…

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Book 5

The Three Perils of Man

by James Hogg

4.17 · 42 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1822 · 27 editions

The Three Perils of Man is regarded as Hogg's most…

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Book 9

The Watcher by the Threshold: Shorter Scottish Fiction

by John Buchan

3.91 · 11 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1997 · 2 editions

This is the first ever complete collection of all …

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Book 10

The Life of Robert Burns

by Catherine Carswell

4.00 · 42 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1930 · 17 editions

First published in 1930 to an unprecedented storm …

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Book 11

Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Volume Two

by Elizabeth Grant

4.25 · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 1 edition

Book by Grant, Elizabeth, Tod, Andrew

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Book 12

Sunset Song

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

4.01 · 5536 Ratings · 607 Reviews · published 1932 · 1 edition

Divided between her love of the land and the harsh…

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Book 13

Homeward Journey

by John MacNair Reid

3.50 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1995 · 3 editions

A young man, haunted by the death of his mother, t…

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Book 15

Just Duffy

by Robin Jenkins

3.79 · 63 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1988 · 7 editions

In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urba…

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Book 17

The Weatherhouse

by Nan Shepherd

3.48 · 246 Ratings · 54 Reviews · published 1930 · 6 editions

The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have …

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Book 18

The Land of the Leal

by James Barke

4.57 · 28 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1939 · 10 editions

This huge novel, closer in scope to a Russian epic…

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Book 22

The Changeling

by Robin Jenkins

4.00 · 663 Ratings · 64 Reviews · published 1958 · 17 editions

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Gla…

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Book 23

A Childhood in Scotland

by Christian Miller

4.17 · 103 Ratings · 17 Reviews · published 1982 · 14 editions

In this perceptive but unpretentious autobiography…

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Book 24

The Silver Bough

by F. Marian McNeill

4.12 · 40 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1989 · 7 editions

A marvellous and indispensible treasury of Scottis…

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Book 27

Wild Harbour

by Ian MacPherson

3.39 · 248 Ratings · 45 Reviews · published 1936 · 2 editions

This is the world of universal future war. Faced w…

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Book 33

The End of an Old Song

by J.D. Scott

3.38 · 8 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1954 · 8 editions

The End of an Old Song is the story of three young…

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Book 34

Grey Granite

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3.75 · 354 Ratings · 29 Reviews · published 1934 · 29 editions

Chris Guthrie and her son, Ewan, have come to the …

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Book 35

Magnus Merriman

by Eric Linklater

3.53 · 53 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1934 · 27 editions

This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and…

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Book 37

Highland River

by Neil M. Gunn

3.74 · 272 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 1937 · 14 editions

Ken is a scientist, with a scientist's dispassiona…

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Book 41

The Highland Lady in Ireland: Journals 1840-50

by Elizabeth Grant

3.27 · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1991 · 5 editions

'They have made an Irishwoman of you now, and may …

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Book 45

Three Scottish Poets

by Norman MacCaig

4.04 · 48 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions

This book contains a selection of the finest work …

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Book 49

Listen to the Voice: Selected Stories

by Iain Crichton Smith

4.10 · 10 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1994 · 3 editions

This collection of the best of Iain Crichton Smith…

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Book 55

Scottish Ballads

by Emily B. Lyle

3.88 · 16 Ratings · published 1996 · 7 editions

Scotland's ballads represent one of the high-water…

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Book 56

Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig = Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology

by Donald MacAulay

4.17 · 36 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1976 · 12 editions

This indispensable anthology contains selections o…

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Book 69

Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland'

by Willa Muir

4.00 · 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1996 · 3 editions

This volume gathers together some of the real and …

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Book 70

The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain

by Nan Shepherd

4.09 · 54 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1998 · 5 editions

The Quarry Wood, although published well before Su…

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Book 77

Tales of Adventure: The Black Arrow: Treasure Island: The Treasure of Franchard: The Sire de Maletroit's Door: Will o' the Mill: The House of Eld: The Song of Morrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson

3.50 · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions

This collection includes Treasure Island, The Blac…

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Book 83

Flemington and Tales from Angus

by Violet Jacob

4.24 · 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1998 · 6 editions

"I think it is the best Scots romance since The Ma…

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Book 97

Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology

by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3.98 · 40 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2001 · 10 editions

This selection of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's writing b…

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Book 101

The Man Who Wanted to Smell Books, and Other Stories

by Elspeth Davie

3.64 · 22 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2001 · 6 editions

Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest short-st…

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Book 110

Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (A Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice

by Edwin Muir

3.57 · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2003 · 4 editions

Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, …

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And the Cock Crew

by Fionn MacColla

3.92 · 26 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 1945 · 12 editions

Introduced by John Herdman, And the Cock Crew offe…

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The Complete Brigadier Gerard

by Arthur Conan Doyle

4.19 · 247 Ratings · 31 Reviews · published 1995 · 25 editions

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's reputation has been swall…

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Ringan Gilhaize: or, The Covenanters

by John Galt

3.69 · 29 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1823 · 84 editions

In a story which lays bare the strengths and the h…

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The Member and The Radical

by John Galt

3.38 · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1832 · 5 editions

Galt's two great political novels date from around…

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Sun Circle

by Neil M. Gunn

3.53 · 45 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1930 · 4 editions

First published in 1933, Sun Circle belongs to Gun…

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The Well at the World's End

by Neil M. Gunn

4.02 · 63 Ratings · 10 Reviews · published 1951 · 12 editions

History professor Peter Munro is on a quest for sp…

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Gillespie

by John MacDougall Hay

3.83 · 29 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 1914 · 15 editions

A leech, a pirate, a predator, an anti-Christ, a p…

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Fergus Lamont

by Robin Jenkins

3.90 · 106 Ratings · 13 Reviews · published 1979 · 10 editions

‘Half Scotland sniggered and the other half scowle…

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The Cone Gatherers

by Robin Jenkins

3.57 · 2046 Ratings · 187 Reviews · published 1980 · 19 editions

Set on an estate in Scotland, it is about a gameke…

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Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence

by James Kennaway

4.08 · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1961 · 4 editions

Tunes of Glory
Household Ghosts
Silence This volume …

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Private Angelo

by Eric Linklater

3.73 · 82 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1946 · 36 editions

Angelo, a private in Mussolini's "ever-glorious" I…

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The Early Life of James McBey: An Autobiography

by James McBey

4.75 · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1994 · 6 editions

Edited and Introduced by Nicolas BarkerThis book i…

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The Blood of the Martyrs

by Naomi Mitchison

4.04 · 25 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 3 editions

Introduced by Donald Smith. Set in Rome during Ner…

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The Gowk Storm

by Nancy Brysson Morrison

4.07 · 131 Ratings · 22 Reviews · published 1933 · 9 editions

A 'gowk storm' is an untimely fall of snow in earl…

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The People of the Sea

by David Thomson

4.52 · 23 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1954 · 5 editions

This is a record of a journey in search of the man…

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Markheim, Jekyll and the Merry Men

by Robert Louis Stevenson

3.43 · 7 Ratings · 3 editions

This collection of stories shows the essentially S…

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Shorter Scottish Fiction

by Robert Louis Stevenson

0.00 · 1 edition

Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Lo…

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Tales of the South Seas

by Robert Louis Stevenson

3.70 · 10 Ratings · published 2001 · 4 editions

This collection includes Island Landfalls, The Ebb…

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The Scottish Novels: Kidnapped, Catriona, The Master of Ballantrae and Weir of Hermiston

by Robert Louis Stevenson

4.19 · 42 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions

Four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis S…

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A Glasgow Trilogy: The Boy Who Wanted Peace; Grace and Miss Partridge; Mr Alfred M.A.

by George Friel

3.95 · 43 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1999 · 2 editions

Distinguished by irony, compassion and the author'…

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The Canongate Burns: The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

4.50 · 30 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2003 · 10 editions

The most comprehensive and challenging edition of …

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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott

by Walter Scott

4.06 · 33 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 1890 · 104 editions

"I have all my life regretted that I did not keep …

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Twentieth Century Scottish Drama: An Anthology

by Cairns Craig

3.40 · 5 Ratings · published 2000 · 3 editions

This collection brings together some of Scotland's…

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Modern Scottish Women Poets

by Dorothy McMillan

3.86 · 14 Ratings · published 2003 · 3 editions

This invaluable collection traces the work of near…

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An Autobiography

by Edwin Muir

4.04 · 45 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 1954 · 30 editions

From his sheltered childhood in Orkney to the turm…

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Canongate Classics Series

Shelve Open the Door!

Shelve Lying Awake

Book 4

Shelve Dance of the Apprentices

Book 5

Shelve The Three Perils of Man

Book 9

Shelve The Watcher by the Threshold: Shorter Scottish Fiction

Book 10

Shelve The Life of Robert Burns

Book 11

Shelve Memoirs of a Highland Lady, Volume Two

Book 12

Shelve Sunset Song

Book 13

Shelve Homeward Journey

Book 15

Shelve Just Duffy

Book 17

Shelve The Weatherhouse

Book 18

Shelve The Land of the Leal

Book 22

Shelve The Changeling

Book 23

Shelve A Childhood in Scotland

Book 24

Shelve The Silver Bough

Book 27

Shelve Wild Harbour

Book 33

Shelve The End of an Old Song

Book 34

Shelve Grey Granite

Book 35

Shelve Magnus Merriman

Book 37

Shelve Highland River

Book 41

Shelve The Highland Lady in Ireland: Journals 1840-50

Book 45

Shelve Three Scottish Poets

Book 49

Shelve Listen to the Voice: Selected Stories

Book 55

Shelve Scottish Ballads

Book 56

Shelve Nua-Bhardachd Gaidhlig = Modern Scottish Gaelic Poems: A Bilingual Anthology

Book 69

Shelve Imagined Selves: Imagined Corners: Mrs Ritchie: Mrs Grundy in Scotland: Women - An Inquiry: 'Women in Scotland'

Book 70

Shelve The Grampian Quartet: The Quarry Wood: The Weatherhouse: A Pass in the Grampians: The Living Mountain

Book 77

Shelve Tales of Adventure: The Black Arrow: Treasure Island: The Treasure of Franchard: The Sire de Maletroit's Door: Will o' the Mill: The House of Eld: The Song of Morrow

Book 83

Shelve Flemington and Tales from Angus

Book 97

Shelve Smeddum: A Lewis Grassic Gibbon Anthology

Book 101

Shelve The Man Who Wanted to Smell Books, and Other Stories

Book 110

Shelve Growing Up in the West: Poor Tom: Fernie Brae (A Scottish Childhood): From Scenes Like These: Apprentice

Shelve And the Cock Crew

Shelve The Complete Brigadier Gerard

Shelve Ringan Gilhaize: or, The Covenanters

Shelve The Member and The Radical

Shelve Sun Circle

Shelve The Well at the World's End

Shelve Gillespie

Shelve Fergus Lamont

Shelve The Cone Gatherers

Shelve Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence

Shelve Private Angelo

Shelve The Early Life of James McBey: An Autobiography

Shelve The Blood of the Martyrs

Shelve The Gowk Storm

Shelve The People of the Sea

Shelve Markheim, Jekyll and the Merry Men

Shelve Shorter Scottish Fiction