Scottish Arts Council Book Awards 1980-2001

1980

Spring

• Iain Crichton Smith An End to Autumn (Gollancz)
• John Keay The Gilgit Game (John Murray)
• Derek Cooper Road to the Isles (Routledge)
• Forsyth Hardy John Grierson: A Documentary Biography (Faber)

Autumn

• K M Campbell Winter of the Eagle (George Allen & Unwin)
• Bruce Lenman The Jacobite Risings in Britain 1689-1746 (Methuen)
• Norman MacCaig The Equal Skies (Chatto & Windus)
• Naomi Mitchison Images of Africa (Canongate)
• R W Munro Scottish Lighthouses (The Thule Press)

Spring

• David Kerr Cameron Willie Gavin, Crofter Man (Gollancz)
• Robert Crampsey The Edinburgh Pirate (Canongate)
• Bernard MacLaverty Lamb (Cape)
• Tessa Ransford Light of the Mind (Ramsay Head Press)
• Frances J Shaw The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland (John Donald)

Autumn

• Anne Smith The Magic Glass (Michael Joseph)
• Alasdair Gray Lanark (Canongate)
• Olive Checkland Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland (John Donald)
• Geoffrey Barrow Kingship and Unity (Edward Arnold)
• Jenny Wormald Court, Kirk and Community (Edward Arnold)

Spring

• Angus Calder Revolutionary Empire (Jonathan Cape)
• Hart and Pick Neil M Gunn: A Highland Life (John Murray)
• Christina Larner Enemies of God (Chatto)
• Michael Lynch Edinburgh and the Reformation (John Donald)
• Allan Massie Death of Men (Bodley Head)
• Christian Miller A Childhood in Scotland (John Murray)
• Ken Morrice For All I Know (Aberdeen University Press)

Autumn

• Geoffrey Finlayson The Seventh Earl of Shatfsbury (Methuen)
• Bernard MacLaverty A Time to Dance (Jonathan Cape)
• Tom McNab Flannagan's Run (Hodder)
• Eric Richards A History of the Highland Clearances (Croom Helm)
• Iain Crichton Smith Selected Poems: 1955-1980 (Macdonald)

Spring

• Ron Butlin The Exquisite Instrument (Salamander)
• Ian Cowan The Scottish Reformation (Weidenfeld)
• Eileen Dunlop The Maze Stone (Oxford University Press)
• Kathleen Jamie Black Spiders (Salamander)
• Edwin Morgan Collected Poems (Carcanet)
• Trevor Royle Death Before Dishonour (Mainstream)
• William Watson The Knight of the Bridge (Chatto)

Autumn

• Tom Gallacher Apprentice (Hamish Hamilton)
• Alasdair Gray Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate)
• James Kelman Not Not While the Giro (Polygon)
• Lyn Macdonald Somme (Michael Joseph)
• Bernard MacLaverty Cal (Jonathan Cape)
• Christopher Rush Peace Comes Dropping Slowly (Ramsay Head Press)

Spring

• R D Anderson Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland (Oxford University Press)
• Ron Butlin The Tilting Room (Canongate)
• Gordon Donaldson All the Queen's Men (Batsford)
• Harry Horse The Ogopogo (Macdonald)
• Norman MacCaig A World of Difference (Chatto)
• Ruth Michaelis-Jena Heritage of the Kaiser's Children (Canongate)

Autumn

• Frank Kuppner A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (Carcanet)
• Liz Lochhead Dreaming of Frankenstein (Polygon)
• Brian McCabe Spring's Witch (Mariscat)
• Alasdair Maclean Night Falls on Ardnamurchan (Gollancz)
• George Mackay Brown Time in a Red Coat (Chatto)
• Agnes Owens Gentlemen of the West (Polygon)

Spring

• John Barrington Red Sky at Night (Michael Joseph)
• David Kerr Cameron Cornkister Days (Gollancz)
• Ronald Frame A Winder Journey (Bodley Head)
• Eugenie Fraser The House by the Dvina (Mainstream)
• Valerie Gillies Bed of Stone (Canongate)
• Edwin Morgan Sonnets from Scotland (Mariscat)
• Alfred Smyth Warlords and Holy Men (Edward Arnold)

Autumn

• Ron Butlin Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars (Secker & Warburg)
• Douglas Dunn Elegies (Faber)
• Elspeth Davie A Traveller's Room (Hamish Hamilton)
• Brian McCabe Lipstick Circus and other stories (Mainstream)
• William Neill Wild Places: Poems in Three Leids (Luath Press)
• Christopher Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day (Aberdeen University Press)

Spring

• Roger Billcliffe The Glasgow Boys (John Murray)
• Carol Ann Duffy Standing Female Nude (Anvil Press)
• Paul Hyde Details From an Apocalypse (Albyn Press)
• Jessie Kesson Where the Apple Ripens (Chatto)
• Norman MacCaig Collected Poems (Chatto)
• Sorley MacLean Ris a' Bhruthaich (Acair)

Autumn

• Anne Fine The Killjoy (Bantam)
• Colin Mackay Song of the Forest (Canongate)
• Eileen Dunlop Clementina (Oxford University Press)
• Tom Gallacher The Jewel Maker (Hamish Hamilton)
• James Hunter and Cailean MacLean Skye: The Island (Mainstream)

Spring

• Iain Banks The Bridge (Macmillan)
• Ronald Frame A Long Weekend with Marcel Proust (Bodley Head)
• Frances Hendry Quest for a Kelpie (Canongate)
• Stuart Hood A Storm from Paradise (Carcanet)
• Allan Massie Augustus (Bodley Head)
• Margaret H B Sanderson Cardinal of Scotland (John Donald)

Autumn

• G F Dutton Squaring the Waves (Bloodaxe)
• James Kelman Greyhound for Breakfast (Secker)
• Andro Linklater Compton Mackenzie: A Life (Chatto)
• Brian McCabe One Atom to Another (Polygon)
• Alastair Mackie Ingaitherins: Selected Poems (Aberdeen University Press)
• Tom Pow Rough Seas (Canongate)
• Duncan & Linda Williamson A Thorn in the King's Foot (Penguin)

Spring

• William Boyd The New Confessions (Hamish Hamilton)
• Annette Hope A Caledonian Feast (Mainstream)
• Ian Jack Before the Oil Ran Out (Secker)
• Kathleen Jamie The Way We Live (Bloodaxe)
• Bernard MacLaverty The Great Profundo and Other Stories (Cape)
• Elma Mitchell People Etcetera (Peterloo Poets)

Autumn

• John Burnside The Hoop (Carcanet)
• Frederic Lindsay A Charm Against Drowning (Deutsch)
• Norman MacCaig Voice-Over (Chatto)
• Candia McWilliam A Case of Knives (Bloomsbury)
• Edwin Morgan Themes on a Variation (Carcanet)

Spring

• Alan Bold MacDiarmid (Murray)
• William Donaldson The Jacobite Song (Aberdeen University Press)
• David Groves James Hogg: the Growth of a Writer (Scottish Academic Press)
• Frances Hendry Quest for a Maid (Canongate)
• Simon Louvish City of Blok (Collins)

Autumn

• John Glenday The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets)
• James Kelman A Disaffection (Secker)
• Ludovic Kennedy On My Way to the Club (Collins)
• Frank Kuppner A Very Quiet Street (Polygon)
• Carl MacDougall Stone Over Water (Secker)
• Candia McWilliam A Little Stranger (Bloomsbury)
• Deborah Randall The Sin Eater (Bloodaxe)

1990

Spring

• William Dalrymple In Xanadu (Collins)
• Sian Hayton Cells of Knowledge (Polygon)
• Peter Keating The Haunted Study (Secker)
• George MacBeth Collected Poems 1958-82 (Hutchinson)
• Eric McCormack The Paradise Motel (Bloomsbury)
• Sorley MacLean O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems (Carcanet)

Autumn

• Carol Ann Duffy The Other Country (Anvil Press)
• Janice Galloway The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Polygon)
• Andrew Greig The Order of the Day (Bloodaxe)
• Todd McEwen McX: A Romance of the Dour (Secker)
• Tom Pow The Moth Trap (Canongate)
• Alan Spence The Magic Flute (Canongate)

Spring

• William Boyd Brazzaville Beach (Sinclair-Stevenson)
• A L Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (Polygon)
• Norman MacCaig Collected Poems (Chatto)
• Gerald Mangan Waiting for the Storm (Bloodaxe)
• Angus Martin The Larch Plantation (Macdonald, Edinburgh)
• Edwin Morgan Collected Poems and Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature (Carcanet)

Autumn

• George Mackay Brown Selected Poems 1954-1983 (John Murray)
• John Burnside Common Knowledge (Secker)
• James Campbell Talking at the Gates (Faber)
• Janice Galloway Blood (Secker)
• James Kelman The Burn (Secker)
• Robbie Kydd The Quiet Stranger (Mainstream)

Spring

• Elspeth Barker O Caledonia (Hamish Hamilton)
• D M Black Collected Poems 1964-1987 (Polygon)
• Jackie Kay The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe)
• Gordon Legge In Between Talking About the Football (Polygon)
• Michael Lynch Scotland: a New History (Century)
• William McIlvanney Strange Loyalties (Hodder) and Surviving the Shipwreck (Mainstream)

Autumn

• George Mackay Brown Vinland (John Murray)
• Stewart Conn The Luncheon of the Boating Party (Bloodaxe Books)
• Kathleen Jamie On Golden Peak (Virago Press)
• Shena Mackay Dunedin (Heinemann)
• Iain Crichton Smith Collected Poems (Carcanet)
• Derick Thomson Bramble of Hope/Smeur an Dochais (Canongate)
• Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! (Martin Secker & Warburg)

Spring

• Ian Bamforth Sons and Pioneers (Carcanet)
• Ian Bell Dreams of Exile (Mainstream)
• Iain Finlayson Tangier: City of the Dream (HarperCollins)
• Duncan Macmillan Symbols of Survival: The Art of Will Maclean (Mainstream)
• David Toulmin Collected Short Stories (Gordon Wright Publishing)

Autumn

• John Herdman Imelda and other stories (Polygon)
• Tom Leonard Places of the Mind (Cape)
• A L Kennedy Looking for the Possible Dance (Secker)
• Don Paterson Nil Nil (Faber)
• Iain Crichton Smith Thoughts of Murdo (Balnain Books)
• Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time (Anvil)

Spring

• Robert Crawford Identifying Poets (EUP)
• Joan Lingard After Colette (Sinclair-Stevenson)
• Brian McCabe In a Dark Room with a Stranger (HH)
• Shena Mackay The Laughing Academy (Heinemann)
• Karl Miller Rebecca's Vest (HH)
• Dilys Rose Red Tides (Secker)
• Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (Secker)

Autumn

• Angus Calder Revolving Culture (IB Taurus)
• Janice Galloway Foreign Parts (Cape)
• Kathleen Jamie Queen of Sheba (Bloodaxe)
• Robin Jenkins Willie Hogg (Polygon)
• James Kelman How Late it Was, How Late (Cape)
• A L Kennedy Now That You're Back (Cape)
• Timothy Neat Part Seen, Part Imagined (Canongate)

Spring

• Andrew Cowan Pig (Michael Joseph)
• Andrew Greig Western Swing (Bloodaxe)
• W N Herbert Forked Tongue (Bloodaxe)
• Duncan Macmillan Scottish Art in the 20th Century (Mainstream)
• Iain Crichton Smith Ends and Beginnings (Carcanet)
• Duncan Thomson Arikha (Phaidon)

Autumn

• William Boyd The Destiny of Nathalie X (Sinclair-Stevenson)
• Stuart Hood The Book of Judith (Carcanet)
• A L Kennedy So I Am Glad (Cape)
• Ali Smith Free Love (Virago
• Alan Warner Morvern Callar (Cape)

Spring

• John Burnside Swimming in the Flood (Cape)
• G F Dutton Harvesting the Edge (Menard)
• Valerie Gillies The Ringing Rock (Scottish Cultural Press)
• Alan Spence Stone Garden (Phoenix House)
• Neal Ascherson Black Sea (Cape)
• James Hunter On the Other Side of Sorrow (Mainstream)

Autumn

• Kate Clanchy Slattern (Chatto)
• W N Herbert Cabaret McGonagall (Bloodaxe)
• Carole Morin Dead Glamorous (Gollancz)
• Alice Thompson Justine (Canongate)
• Jeff Torrington The Devil’s Carousel (Secker)

Spring

• Robin Jenkins Lunderston Tales (Polygon)
• Muriel Spark Reality and Dreams (Constable)
• James Hunter Glencoe and the Indians (Mainstream)

Autumn

• Meg Bateman Aotromachd agus dain eile / Lightness and other poems (Polygon)
• William Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain (HarperCollins)
• A L Kennedy Original Bliss (Cape)
• Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (Cape)
• Don Paterson God’s Gift to Women (Faber)
• Alan Warner These Demented Lands (Cape)

Spring

• Duncan McLean Lone Star Swing (Jonathan Cape)
• Candia McWilliam Wait Till I Tell You (Bloomsbury)
• Allan Massie Shadows of Empire (Sinclair-Stevenson)
• Alastair Reid Oasis (Canongate)
• Christopher Whyte The Warlock of Strathearn (Victor Gollancz)

Autumn

• William Boyd Armadillo (Hamish Hamilton)
• James Kelman The Good Times (Secker & Warburg)
• Dilys Rose War Dolls (Review)
• Alice Thompson Pandora’s Box (Little, Brown)
• Alan Warner The Sopranos (Cape)

Spring

• Michel Faber Some Rain Must Fall (Canongate)
• Bill Herbert The Laurelude
• Robin Jenkins Matthew and Sheila (Polygon)
• Jackie Kay Trumpet

Autumn

• Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons (HarperCollins)
• Robert Crawford Spirit Machines (Cape Poetry)
• Toni Davidson Scar Culture (Rebel Inc)
• A L Kennedy Everything You Need (Jonathan Cape)
• Brian McCabe Body Parts (Canongate)

2000

Spring

• Kate Clanchy Samarkand (Picador)
• Carol Ann Duffy The World’s Wife (Picador)
• Kathleen Jamie Jizzen (Picador)
• Don Paterson The Eyes: a version of Antonio Machado (Faber and Faber)
• Ruth Thomas The Dance Settee and Other Stories (Polygon)

Autumn

• Andrew Crumey Mr Mee (Picador)
• Douglas Dunn Donkey’s Ears (Faber and Faber)
• A L Kennedy On Bullfighting (Yellow Jersey/Random House)
• Ross Leckie Carthage (Canongate)
• James Meek The Museum of Doubt (Rebel Inc)

Spring

• Douglas Dunn The Year’s Afternoon (Faber and Faber)
• Alan Spence Seasons of the Heart (Canongate)
• Margaret Elphinstone The Sea Road (Canongate)
• Alasdair Campbell The Nessman (Birlinn)
• Christopher Whyte The Cloud Machinery (Victor Gollancz)