Buying a book, getting a book voucher, or visiting the library and stocking up on reading for over the Festive period – there’s a lot a choice out there.
Books available in local shops or online.
Rebel Orkney: Tales of Insurrection from Orcadian History by Fiona Grahame & Martin Laird
The Strawplaiters of Orkney by Fiona Grahame: Find out about the working lives of women and girls in the first half of the 19th century
In My Right Place: The Life and Times of Joseph Clouston, Gold Coast Merchant and Harray Laird by Virginia Schroeder
Across The Silent Sea: Orkney – at the edge of darkness and light by Gabrielle Barnby
Scottish Book Trust have listed their 25 memorable Scottish novels for adults from the last 25 years. It is also 25 years since Scottish Book Trust was founded in 1998.
- 1998: Trumpet by Jackie Kay
- 1999: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
- 2000: Under the Skin by Michel Faber
- 2001: Hallam Foe by Peter Jinks
- 2002: The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
- 2003: Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
- 2004: Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
- 2005: Minaret by Leila Aboulela
- 2006: The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
- 2007: Day by A. L. Kennedy
- 2008: Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
- 2009: Choke Chain by Jason Donald
- 2010: The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
- 2011: The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams
- 2012: The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
- 2013: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
- 2014: How to be Both by Ali Smith
- 2015: His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- 2016: The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
- 2017: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
- 2018: The Long Take by Robin Robertson
- 2019: Conviction by Denise Mina
- 2020: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
- 2021: Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
- 2022: The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla
And for this year 2023: In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
The above books can be bought through The Scottish Book Trust bookshop.org affiliation As well as supporting independent bookshops, a small portion of the profits helps the Trust to develop its programmes to change more lives through reading and writing.
