Prizewinners & Shortlisted
100 Favourite Poems (100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn)
100 Dàn as Fheàrr Leinn edited by Peter MacKay and Joe MacDonald was awarded the Derrick Thomson Prize for Best Poetry Book by the Gaelic Books Council and The Scottish Poetry Library in 2021.
Already, Too Late
Already, Too Late by Carl MacDougall was longlisted for the Non-fiction Saltire Book Awards 2024
Am Balach Beag a dh’Èisteadh aig Dorsan
Am Balach Beag a dh’Èisteadh aig Dorsan was awarded the best book for adults at the Royal National Mòd in 2018.
Am Prionnsa
Am Prionnsa by Graham Cooper was shortlisted for the Best Unpublished Manuscript for Adults at the Gaelic Literature Awards 2024
Animal Fairm
Animal Fairm translated by Thomas Clark won the Scots Book o the Year at the Scottish Language Awards 2023.
An Gille, am Famh, an Sionnach ’s an t-Each
An Gille, am Famh, an Sionnach ’s an t-Each by Charlie Mackesy and translated by Johan Smith was shortlisted for the award for Best Book for Children/Young People by the Gaelic Books Council in 2021. The English edition of ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ has subsequently been made into a BAFTA and OSCAR winning animated short film.
An Gille, am Famh, an Sionnach ’s an t-Each: An Sgeulachd Bheò-Dheilbhte
An Gille, am Famh, an Sionnach ’s an t-Each: An Sgeulachd Bheò-Dheilbhte by Charlie Mackesy and translated by Johan Smith was shortlisted for the award for Best Book for Children/Young People by the Gaelic Books Council in 2023. The English edition of ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ has subsequently been made into a BAFTA and OSCAR winning animated short film.
An Ròs a Leigheas: The Healing Rose
An Ròs a Leigheas: The Healing Rose by Graham Cooper won first prize for Adult Book of the Year at The Royal National Mòd 2022
Angus Peter Campbell
Author of Archie and the North Wind, Angus Peter Campbell, was awarded the Bardic Crown for Gaelic Poetry in 2001, as well as the Creative Scotland Award for Literature in 2002. He was nominated for the Creative Scotland Award for Literature in 2012.
An Leabhar Liath or The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic love and transgressive verse
An Leabhar Liath or The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic love and transgressive verse edited by Peter Mackay and Iain MacPherson was awarded the Donald Meek Award 2016. It also won the Saltire Society Research Book Award 2017.
Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and the Wicked Issues
Arguing for Independence: Evidence, Risk and Wicked Issues by Stephen Maxwell was shortlisted for 'Polemic of the Year' at The Paddy Power and Total Politics Political Book Awards 2013.
Bad Catholics
Bad Catholics (now published by Accent Press), the first book in the Jimmy Costello series by James Green, was shortlisted for the Specsavers Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger in the year 2009.
The Bannockburn Years
The Bannockburn Years by William Scott won the 1997 Constable Trophy.
Bodywork
Bodywork by Dilys Rose was shortlisted for the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards in the Poetry category.
The Bower Bird
The Bower Bird by Ann Kelley won the Costa Children’s Award and the UK Literacy Association Book Award. The Bower Bird also won the 2008 Cornish Literary Guild’s Literary Salver.
The Burying Beetle
The Burying Beetle by Ann Kelley was shortlisted for Brandford Boase Award and was selected for the WH Smith New Talent Initiative in 2006.
But n Ben A-Go-Go
But n Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew Fitt was one of The List/Scottish Book Trust 100 All Time Best Scottish Books in 2005.
Caledonian Cramboclink
Caledonian Cramboclink by William Neill includes work from the book Wild Places which was shortlisted for the Autumn 1985 Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Collier Laddie
Collier Laddie by Rab Wilson was shortlisted as Scots Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2024.
Constabal Murdo
Constabal Murdo by Angus Peter Campbell was shortlisted for the Donald Meek Award 2018.
Constabal Murdo 2
Constabal Murdo 2 by Angus Peter Campbell is the winner of the Gaelic Literature Awards 2022, Fiction Book of the Year.
The Cream of the Well
The Cream of the Well by Valerie Gillies was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award 2015.
Cuibhle an Fhortain
Cuibhle an Fhortain by Mòrag Law was shortlisted for The Gaelic Literature Awards 2020 Best Fiction Book.
Da Happie Laand
Da Happie Laand by Robert Alan Jamieson was shortlisted for the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and for the fiction category for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2011. The book also reached the longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012.
Dà Shamhradh ann an Raineach
Dà Shamhradh ann an Raineach by Graham Cooper was shortlisted for The Gaelic Literature Awards 2020 Best Fiction Book.
The East Highland Way
The East Highland Way by Kevin Langan was shortlisted for Outdoor Book of the Year, and Kevin Langan for Outdoor Personality of the Year, in the TGO (The Great Oudoors Magazine) Awards 2012.
Eye for an Eye
Eye for an Eye by Frank Muir was the winner of the Pitlochry Award.
Electricity
Electricity by Angus Peter Campbell was Shortlisted for Fiction Book of the Year 2023 at the Saltire Awards.
The Fatal Sleep
The Fatal Sleep by Peter Kennedy was highly commended in the BMA Popular Medicine Book Awards.
Far Na Slighe
Far Na Slighe by Shelagh Chaimbeul was winner of the Highland Society of London Prize for Best Fiction Book at the Gaelic Literature Awards 2024.
Fir an Diùraidh
Fir an Diùraidh by Alistair Paul was shortlisted for The Highland Society of London Prize for Best Fiction Book at The Gaelic Literature Awards 2023.
A Gray Play Book
A Gray Play Book by Alasdair Gray Includes ‘Poor Things’ 1993 film script (which has since subsequently been made into a new edition as of 2024, which has been nominated for 11 BAFTAS and 11 OSCARS).
The Great Melnikov
The Great Melnikov by Hugh MacLachlan was shortlisted for the Sagittarius Prize.
Homage to Caledonia: Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
Homage to Caledonia by Daniel Gray was shortlisted for the History Book of the Year category of the 2009 Saltire Literary Awards.
The Hoolet Thit Couldnae Fly
The Hoolet Thit Couldnae Fly by Emma Grae was shortlisted as Scots Bairns Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2024.
The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie
The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie by Charlie Mackesy, translated by Matthew Fitt is a Scots translation of ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ which has subsequently been made into a BAFTA and OSCAR winning animated short film.
The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie: The Animatit Story
The Laddie, the Mowdie, the Tod and the Cuddie: The Animatit Story by Charlie Mackesy, translated by Matthew Fitt is a Scots translation of ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ which has subsequently been made into a BAFTA and OSCAR winning animated short film.
Land of Stone: A Journey through Modern Architecture in Scotland
Land of Stone by Roger Emmerson was shortlisted in the Monographs category in the Architectural Book Awards 2023.
Language of my Choosing: A Creative Scots-Italian Memoir
Language of my Choosing by Anne Pia was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award 2017.
It was also nominated for the Premio Flaiano di Italianistica 2018 by the Italian Cultural Institute, which it went on to win.
Linne Dhomhainn
Linne Dhomhainn by Alistair Paul won The Gaelic Literature Awards 2020 Best Unpublished Manuscript for Adults.
Liz Niven
Liz Niven won the Scots Champion Award at the Scots Language Awards 2024.
Luath Treasury of Scottish Nursery Rhymes
Luath Treasury of Scottish Nursery Rhymes by Alasdair Hutton (ed) was nominated for Scots Bairns Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2023.
Memory and Straw
Memory and Straw by Angus Peter Campbell won the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2017.
Me and Ma Gal
Me and Ma Gal by Des Dillon was one of The List/Scottish Book Trust 100 All Time Best Scottish Books and shortlisted for the 1995 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
Mountain Days and Bothy Nights
Mountain Days and Bothy Nights by Dave Brown and Ian R. Mitchell was featured in World Book Day’s We Are What We Read selection.
My Margaret, Your Toshie
My Margaret, Your Toshie by Keith Adamson was shortlisted for the First Book of the Year 2023 at the Saltire Awards
The People’s Referendum
The People’s Referendum by Peter Geoghegan was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award 2015.
Poverty Safari
Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey won the Orwell Prize 2018. It was also shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards 2018.
The Price of Scotland
The Price of Scotland by Douglas Watt won the 2008 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History.
The Prisoner of St Kilda
The Prisoner of St Kilda by Margaret Macaulay was shortlisted for the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award.
Rab Wilson
Rab Wilson won the Janet Paisley Services to Scots Award at the 2024 Scots Language Awards.
Red Sky at Night
Red Sky at Night by John Barrington was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards in Spring 1985.
Right to Die
Right to Die by Hazel McHaffie was highly commended for the BMA Popular Medicine Book Awards.
Scar Hill
Scar Hill by Alan Temperley was shortlisted for the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2011 UKLA Children's Book Awards.
Scotland’s Referendum
Scotland’s Referendum by Jamie Maxwell and David Torrance was shortlisted for the 2014 Paddy Power Political Book Awards.
Scotland’s Mountains Before the Mountaineers
Scotland’s Mountains Before the Mountaineers by Ian R. Mitchell won the Outdoor Writers Guild Book Award.
Scotland No More
Scotland No More by Marjory Harper won the Frank Watson Prize 2013, awarded by the University of Guelph, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year 2013.
Six Black Candles
Six Black Candles by Des Dillon won the 2000 Television Arts Performance Showcase Writer of the Year Award, 2001 International Festival of Playwriting Award and the 2004 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (Best Ensemble Play).
St Kilda: The Silent Islands
St Kilda: The Silent Islands by Alex Boyd was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book Award 2018.
The Ultimate Guide to the Munros (Volume 1)
The Ultimate Guide to the Munros by Ralph Storer won a Highly Commended award at the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Award for Excellence.
This is Our Story
This is Our Story by Ian Murray the Parliamentary Book Award: Best Biography or Memoir by a Parliamentarian 2019.
This is Scotland
This is Scotland by Daniel Gray and Alan McCredie was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2015.
This Road is Red
This Road is Red by Alison Irvine was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year award 2011.
Touching the Heights
Touching the Heights by Archie Macpherson was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Sports Book Awards Sports Entertainment Book of the Year 2023.
A View from the Ridge
A View from the Ridge by Dave Brown and Ian R Mitchell won the 1991 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
Voicing Scotland
Voicing Scotland by Gary West won the Ratcliff Prize for the study of folklore or folk life in Great Britain and Ireland. It was also shortlisted for the 2012 Trad Music in the Media (sponsored by The Saltire Society) Award at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.
Whit If?
Whit If? by Hugh McMillan was shortlisted as Scots Book o the Year at the Scots Language Awards 2024.
Women of Moray
Women of Moray by Susan Bennett (ed.), Mary Byatt (ed.), Jenny Main (ed.), Anne Oliver (ed.) Janet Trythall (ed.) was shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish History Book of the Year at the Saltire Literary Awards.
Writing in the Sand
Writing in the Sand by Angus Dunn was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s First Book Award.
Yesterday’s Sins
Yesterday’s Sins (now published by Accent Press) by James Green was shortlisted for the 2010 East Midlands Book Award.
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