My top Scottish authors, part 1

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As it’s Book Week Scotland, I thought I’d post some words on my favourite Scottish authors. (In no particular order.)

[image error]James Kelman – Kelman’s novel How Late it Was, How Late earned him a Booker Prize in 1994 (the first and only time the prize has been won by a Scottish author) and earned me my first ever ‘1’ on an English lit essay in 2011. I’ve forgotten a lot of what I wrote about Scots dialect, free indirect third person narration and its political connotations, but I do remember just how...