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It's Sh**e Being Scottish - An Intro to Scottish Psyche
Open the Door! (Canongate Classics)Open the Door! (Canongate Classics) by Catherine Carswell
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Overlooked victorian fiction
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics)A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson
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Intriguing perambulation around the sublime hinterland in 1773
Scotland: A New HistoryScotland: A New History by Michael Lynch
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Exhaustive and scholarly
Unlikely Stories, MostlyUnlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
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Unexpected beauty
TrainspottingTrainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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As good as the film, but different
CullodenCulloden by John Prebble
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Turning point
Glencoe: The Story of the MassacreGlencoe: The Story of the Massacre by John Prebble
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Makes the place even more haunting
Scot's QuairScot's Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Life in the North East
Grampian Quartet: "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain" (Canongate Classics)Grampian Quartet: "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain" (Canongate Classics) by Nan Shepherd
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Prelude to Grassic Gibbon
Three Scottish Poets (Canongate Classics)Three Scottish Poets (Canongate Classics) by Norman MacCaig
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Captures the permanence and pace of geography
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern WorldThe Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World by Arthur Herman
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Sychophantic polemic - but interesting for the first half
Joan Eardley, R.S.A.Joan Eardley, R.S.A. by Cordelia Oliver
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Greatest modern Scottish painter
Kidnapped (Penguin Classics)Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Perfectly captures the dualistic nature of the Scottish psyche
The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Penguin Classics)The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
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Inspired Dickens
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library)The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library) by Tobias Smollett
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Bad tempered , fictional compliment to Johnson and Boswell
"Morvern Callar": Script"Morvern Callar": Script by Liana Dognini
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Calm, paced imagery