A Green Tree in Gedde

Naming the Snakes

Sunset Song regularly appears in lists of favourite Scottish books, and is perhaps the iconic Sco...

Roderick Watson''s SCOTNOTE study guide will enhance any student''s enjoyment of MacCaig''s poetr...

Robin Jenkins''s greatest novel is a powerful examination of good and evil, set against the backd...

Ena Lamont Stewart (1912-2006) had a keen sense of the appalling poverty and deprivation suffered...

''The Cottagers of Glenburnie'' presents vivid depictions - and biting satires - of Scottish peas...

Janice Galloway''s novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing is a study of a woman, Joy Stone, overcom...

SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently us...

Kirsteen, from an old but impoverished family, rebels against her father and flees to London. Aga...

Beth Dickson''s SCOTNOTE study guide provides a thoughtful analysis of the novel 'Laidlaw' by Wil...

Faced with the prospect of marriage to an elderly, red-haired, squinting Duke, the passionate Lad...

Derick Thomson - Ruaraidh MacThòmais - was one of the most prolific and influential Scottish Gael...

Iain Crichton Smith was one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, writing in English and Gae...

John Hodgart''s SCOTNOTE study guide examines two of Sue Glover''s plays: Bondagers and The Straw...

Mary Paterson is a high-Victorian tale of the foul deeds of Burke and Hare, who kept Edinburgh''s...

James Hogg''s most famous novel is an unforgettable tale of mystery, murder, religious fanaticism...

David Manderson''s SCOTNOTE study guide considers the impact of Local Hero on the Scottish film i...

Hugh MacDiarmid (born Christopher Murray Grieve) is a huge, and still controversial, figure in mo...

Edwin Morgan (1920 - 2010) is one of the giants of modern poetry. Scotland''s national poet from ...

Along with his contemporaries Edwin Morgan and Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean is recognised as o...

''Understanding Grammar in Scotland Today'' explains basic concepts and presents a method of anal...

Iain Banks is one of the most inventive writers in the UK today, producing an extraordinary range...

The twentieth-century Scottish Renaissance saw a sudden and dramatic change in Scotland''s litera...

The work of Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean), the greatest Gaelic poet of the 20th century...

Edwin Morgan (1920-2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. In Touch With Language presen...

From the Line brings together the best of Scotland''s poetry from the two World Wars: 138 poems, ...

Compared to Gaelic poetry, the history of Gaelic theatre has not been a particularly long one, wi...

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every...

Rona Munro's 1991 play Bold Girls is a tale of four Belfast women during the Troubles, exploring ...

Jackie Kay served as Scotland's Makar from 2016 to 2021 and is one of Scotland's foremost writers...

Bessie Dunlop, the Witch o Dalry is a three-act play for schools suitable for BGE and S3-S4 stude...

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every...

The poetry of Helen Craik (1751-1825), Gothic novelist and friend of Robert Burns, was long thoug...

First published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively and intimate portrayal of Aberlour Orphanage i...

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every...

This SCOTNOTE Study Guide will help students and teachers to discover Scotland's rich multilingua...

A Queer Warld

These five plays address cultural and political mythmaking, both modern and historical, in Scotla...

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every...

The Gaelic Writings of Domhnall Mac na Ceardaich (Donald Sinclair)