Prizes for Scottish Books and Writers in 2005

The TS Eliot Award for Poetry

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Whitbread Book Awards

Blue Peter Children's Book Awards

Cartier Diamond Dagger (for outstanding contribution to crime fiction)

WH Smith Children's Book of the Year

Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards

Ondaatje prize

Saltire Awards

  • Cover scan of The Accidental
    The Accidental Ali Smith
    'The Accidental' is the follow-up novel to 'Hotel World', which was shortlisted for the Booker and Orange prizes in 2002. Ali Smith's other novels include 'Free Love', 'Like', 'Other Stories and Other Stories' and 'The Whole Story and Other Stories'.
  • Cover scan of Amande's Bed
    Amande's Bed John Aberdein
    It is 1956 and post-war Scotland is reeling - with sex, Americans, storms, the news from Budapest and fish. Young Peem is hankering, trying to find his legs in that reel - what with Miss Florence, his mother, Haze, Bridget Amande, Dinah, plus the girls in
  • Cover scan of Case Histories
    Case Histories Kate Atkinson
    Full of suspense and heartbreak, 'Case Histories' is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. Jackson is 45 but feels much older. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.
  • Cover scan of David II, 1329-71
    David II, 1329-71 Michael A. Penman
    Bringing together evidence from Scotland, England and France, this study offers an alternative view of David II - that of a child King who survived usurpation, invasion, exile in France and 11 years of English captivity after defeat in battle in 1326 to emerge as a formidable ruler of Scotland.
  • Cover scan of Fleshmarket Close
    Fleshmarket Close Ian Rankin
    An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme - a racist attact, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems - his old police station has closed for business, and his masters would rather he retire than stick around.
  • Cover scan of The Gruffalo's Child
    The Gruffalo's Child Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler
    The Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should ever set foot in the deep dark wood. But one wild and windy night, the Gruffalo's child ignores her father's warning and tiptoes out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist - does he?
  • Cover scan of 'My Heart Is My Own'
    'My Heart Is My Own': The Life Of Mary Queen Of Scots J. A. Guy
    The life of Mary Stuart is one of unparalleled drama and conflict. The portrait that emerges in this book is not of a political pawn or a manipulative siren but of a shrewd and charismatic young ruler who relished power and, for a time, managed to hold together a fatally unstable country.
  • The Places In Between
    The Places In Between Rory Stewart
    A brilliant account of a death defying walk through Afghanistan Rory Stewart's sparsely poetic, and highly acclaimed account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern classic of travel writing. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible, mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile conditions. With the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way, however, he survived to report back on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war.
  • Cover scan of Rapture
    Rapture Carol Ann Duffy
    Carol Ann Duffy's 'Rapture' is about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, intellectual, emotional.
  • Cover scan of Shopped
    Shopped: The Shocking Power Of British Supermarkets Joanna Blythman
    In the 1970s, supermarkets in Britain accounted for 10% of the grocery spend. Today that figure is now 80%, influencing our whole way of life. This book looks at the impact of supermarket domination, from farmers who have to sell produce at less than its value to the teenage part-timers who stack the shelves.
  • Cover scan of The Snail And The Whale
    The Snail And The Whale Julia Donaldson; Axel Scheffler
    A snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on a whale's tail. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the snail feels very small in the vastness of the world. But when the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail who saves the day.
  • Cover scan of Weights And Measures In Scotland
    Weights And Measures In Scotland: A European Perspective R. D. Connor; A. D. C. Simpson
    Winner of the 2005 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award. After looking at contemporary legislation and examining the physical evidence of surviving artefacts, the authors have come to some surprising conclusions.