Saltire Society Literary Award Winners

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Winners

	Alison Watt: A Portrait Without Likeness by Alison Watt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Book Cover of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blood and Gold: A Journey of Shadows by Mara Menzies 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now by Patricia MacDonald (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Research Book of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to burn a woman by Claire Askew 4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Poetry Book of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In. by Will McPhail 4.37 avg rating — 3,913 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean by David Alston 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Book of the Year (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross 4.33 avg rating — 767 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Without Air by Daisy Lafarge 4.11 avg rating — 157 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duck Feet by Ely Percy 4.57 avg rating — 749 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Fiction Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fate by Jorge Consiglio 3.28 avg rating — 200 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Book Cover of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bleak: The Mundane Comedy by R.M. Murray 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish First Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesea, from the Bronze Age to the Picts by Ian Armit it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Research Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite by Maria Hayward 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for History Book of the Year (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El viento que arrasa by Selva Almada 3.67 avg rating — 2,877 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Book Cover of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie Reid 4.31 avg rating — 757 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community by Kirstie Blair it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Saltire Society Literary Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hand Over Mouth Music by Janette Ayachi 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Poetry Book of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nina X by Ewan Morrison 3.78 avg rating — 241 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen Rutt 4.10 avg rating — 134 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter 4.09 avg rating — 1,427 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander III: 1249 - 1286, First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating Saltire Society Literary Award for History Book of the Year (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wristwatch by Jay Whittaker (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sal by Mick Kitson 3.89 avg rating — 2,276 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Drowned and the Saved: When War Came to the Hebrides by Les Wilson 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for History Book of the Year (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom Mole 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Research Book of the Year (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 689 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Fiction Book of the Year (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue Black 4.17 avg rating — 9,635 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Book of the Year (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Leabhar Liath = The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse by Peter Mackay (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Research Book of the Year (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bird-Woman by Em Strang 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goblin by Ever Dundas (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 313 ratings Saltire Society Literary Award for First Book (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars