Scotland's National Book AwardsWinner

Given by Saltire Society

Other Names: Saltire Society, Saltire Society Literary Awards, Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award Shortlist
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The Saltire Society Awards promote excellence in the arts and sciences. Awards run throughout the year in many different disciplines. The general public and members of the Saltire show more Society are encouraged to support and to put forward nominations for any of the Awards. Awards are presented in the following categories •Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun Award •Arts & Crafts in Architecture (bi-annual) •Civil Engineering •Housing Design •National Scottish Song Competition •Science •Scottish Book of the Year •Scottish First Book of the Year •Scottish History Book of the Year •Scottish Research Book of the Yea show less
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All, Winner (140), Shortlist (155)
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Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (3), 2019 (6), 2018 (6), 2017 (5), 2016 (7), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (3), 2012 (4), 2011 (4), 2010 (6), 2009 (4), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (4), 2005 (3), 2004 (3), 2003 (3), 2002 (5), 2001 (3), 2000 (5), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (3), 1996 (2), 1995 (3), 1994 (2), 1993 (2), 1992 (1), 1991 (2), 1990 (2), 1989 (2), 1988 (2), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (2), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1958 (1), 1956 (1), 1937 (2)

Winner 140

WorkCategoryYear
In Ascension by Martin MacInnesFiction2023
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzieFirst Book2023
'The People Are Not There': The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863 by David TaylorHistory Book2023
Dastram / Delirium by Taylor StricklandPoetry2023
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began by Leah HazardScottish Book of the Year2023
Blood and Gold: A Journey of Shadows by Mara MenziesFiction2022
In. by Will McPhailFirst Book2022
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra RamaswamyNon-Fiction2022
How to Burn a Woman by Claire AskewPoetry2022
Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean by David AlstonScottish / History Book of the Year2022
Duck Feet by Ely PercyFiction2021
Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite by Maria HaywardHistory Book2021
Life Without Air by Daisy LafargePoetry2021
The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva AlmadaBook Cover of the Year2019
Nina X by Ewan MorrisonFiction2019
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare HunterFirst Book2019
The Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds by Stephen RuttFirst Book2019
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. ReidHistory Book2019
The World I Fell Out Of by Melanie ReidNon-Fiction2019
All That Remains: A Life in Death by Sue BlackBook of the Year2018
Elsewhere, Home by Leila AboulelaFiction2018
Sal by Mick KitsonFirst Book2018
The Drowned and the Saved by Les WilsonHistory Book2018
Wristwatch by Jay WhittakerPoetry2018
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History by Tom MoleResearch Award2018
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka KassabovaBook of the Year2017
Goblin by Ever DundasFirst Book2017
Bird-Woman by Em StrangPoetry2017
The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Poetry by Peter MackayResearch Award2017
Memory and Straw by Angus Peter CampbellScottish Fiction Book of the Year2017
The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen JamieBook of the Year2016
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae BurnetFiction2016
Trials: On Death Row in Pakistan by Isabel BuchananFirst Book2016
Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy by Chitra RamaswamyFirst Book2016
Set Adrift Upon the World: The Sutherland Clearances by James HunterHistory Book2016
Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance by John KayNon-Fiction2016
The literary culture of early modern Scotland : manuscript production and transmission, 1560-1625 by Sebastiaan VerweijResearch Award2016
On the Edges of Vision by Helen McCloryFirst Book2015
Adventures in human being by Gavin FrancisNon-Fiction2015
Clubbing together : ethnicity, civility and formal sociability in the Scottish diaspora to 1930 by Tanja BueltmannResearch Award2015
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberScottish Fiction Book of the Year2015
A Chasm in Time: Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth Century by Patricia R. AndrewScottish History Book of the Year2015
Moontide by Niall CampbellFirst Book2014
How to Be Both by Ali SmithLiterary Book2014
Bones & Breath by Alexander HutchisonPoetry2014
The Scottish town in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1740-1820 by Bob HarrisResearch Award2014
Scottish Gods : religion in modern Scotland, 1900-2012 by Steve BruceScottish History Book of the Year2014
The sunlit summit by Robin Lloyd-JonesResearch Award2013
Something like happy by John BurnsideScottish Book of the Year2013
Air cuan dubh drilseach by Tim ArmstrongScottish First Book of the Year2013
Scotland: Mapping the Nation by Christopher FleetResearch Award2012
Mo Said She Was Quirky by James KelmanScottish Book of the Year2012
The Last Highlander by Sarah FraserScottish First Book of the Year2012
A Military History of Scotland by Edward M. SpiersScottish History Book of the Year2012
The Echo Chamber by Luke WilliamsFirst Book2011
Beyond the Last Dragon: A life of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigalResearch Award2011
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair GrayScottish Book of the Year2011
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma RothschildScottish History Book of the Year2011
Robert Burns and Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland by Nigel LeaskResearch Award2010
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas PhillipsonResearch Award2010
And the Land Lay Still by James RobertsonScottish Book of the Year2010
The History of Orkney Literature by Simon HallScottish First Book of the Year2010
The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue PeeblesScottish First Book of the Year2010
Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century by Catriona M. M. MacDonaldScottish History Book of the Year2010
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary - 2 volume set by Christian KayResearch Award2009
The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography by Robert CrawfordScottish Book of the Year2009
The Tin Kin by Eleanor ThomScottish First Book of the Year2009
A History of Scottish Philosophy by Alexander BroadieScottish History Book of the Year2009
Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (Literature in History) by Ian DuncanResearch Award2008
Kieron Smith, Boy by James KelmanScottish Book of the Year2008
The Good Mayor by Andrew NicollScottish First Book of the Year2008
From Pictland to Alba: Scotland, 789-1070 by Alex WoolfScottish History Book of the Year2008
Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature by Robert CrawfordResearch Award2007
Day by A. L. KennedyScottish Book of the Year2007
Fresh by Mark McNayScottish First Book of the Year2007
The Scots and the Union by Christopher A. WhatleyScottish History Book of the Year2007
Duthchas Nan Gaidheal: Collected Essays of John MacInnes by John MacInnesResearch Award2006
A Lie About My Father: A Memoir by John BurnsideScottish Book of the Year2006
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie FergussonScottish First Book of the Year2006
Scotland's Historic Heraldry by Bruce A. McAndrewScottish History Book of the Year2006
Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective by R.D. ConnorResearch Award2005
Case Histories by Kate AtkinsonScottish Book of the Year2005
Amande's Bed by John AberdeinScottish First Book of the Year2005
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and His Business Network, 1823-1893 by J. Forbes MunroResearch Award2004
In Another Light by Andrew GreigScottish Book of the Year2004
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper by Peter HillScottish First Book of the Year2004
Joseph Knight by James RobertsonScottish Book of the Year2003
Ath-aithne: Re-acquaintance by Màrtainn Mac an t-SaoirScottish First Book of the Year2003
Adventurers & Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus by Marjory HarperScottish History Book of the Year2003
Public Sculpture of Glasgow (Liverpool University Press - Public Sculpture of Britain) by Ray McKenzieResearch Award2002
Clara by Janice GallowayScottish Book of the Year2002
Burns the radical : poetry and politics in late eighteenth-century Scotland by Liam McIlvanneyScottish First Book of the Year2002
The Cutting Room by Louise WelshScottish First Book of the Year2002
The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland by Margo ToddScottish History Book of the Year2002
The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland by Alastair J. MannResearch Award2001
Medea by Liz LochheadScottish Book of the Year2001
In the Blue House by Meaghan DelahuntScottish First Book of the Year2001
The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society 1750-1950 by William DonaldsonResearch Award2000
Jessie Kesson : writing her life by Isobel MurrayResearch Award2000
The Lantern Bearers by Ronald FrameScottish Book of the Year2000
Under the Skin by Michel FaberScottish First Book of the Year2000
The Rising Sun by Douglas GalbraithScottish First Book of the Year2000
Poems by William DunbarResearch Award1999
Some Rain Must Fall and Other Stories by Michel FaberScottish First Book of the Year1999
Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances by Eric RichardsScottish History Book of the Year1999
The Sopranos by Alan WarnerScottish Book of the Year1998
The Pied Piper's Poison by Christopher WallaceScottish First Book of the Year1998
The Identity of the Scottish Nation by William FergusonScottish History Book of the Year1998
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLavertyScottish Book of the Year1997
A Painted Field by Robin RobertsonScottish First Book of the Year1997
The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III, 1371-1406 by Stephen BoardmanScottish History Book of the Year1997
The Kiln by William McIlvanneyScottish Book of the Year1996
Slattern by Kate ClanchyScottish First Book of the Year1996
Black Sea by Neal AschersonScottish Book of the Year1995
The Wreck of the Archangel: Poems by George Mackay BrownScottish Book of the Year1995
Free Love and Other Stories by Ali SmithScottish First Book of the Year1995
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay BrownScottish Book of the Year1994
Music, in a Foreign Language by Andrew CrumeyScottish First Book of the Year1994
R.B.: A Biography of Robert Burns by James MackayScottish Book of the Year1993
Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson : A Biography by Ian BellScottish First Book of the Year1993
Adoption Papers by Jackie KayScottish First Book of the Year1992
Scottish Art, 1460-1990 by Duncan MacmillanScottish Book of the Year1991
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A. L. KennedyScottish First Book of the Year1991
From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems by Sorley MacLeanScottish Book of the Year1990
The Ballad of Sawney Bain (Fiction series) by Harry TaitScottish First Book of the Year1990
A Question of Loyalties by Allan MassieScottish Book of the Year1989
Cells of Knowledge by Sian HaytonScottish First Book of the Year1989
Games With Shadows by Neal AschersonScottish Book of the Year1988
The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy by Tom NairnScottish Book of the Year1988
The Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel SparkScottish Book of the Year1987
A Storm from Paradise by Stuart HoodScottish Book of the Year1986
Collected Poems by Norman MacCaigScottish Book of the Year1985
God and the Poets (Gifford Lecture) by David DaichesScottish Book of the Year1984
Intimate Voices: Selected Works, 1965-83 by Tom LeonardScottish Book of the Year1984
Poems of thirty years by Edwin MorganScottish Book of the Year1983
Lanark by Alasdair GrayScottish Book of the Year1982
Scotland Before History (Cosmos) by Stuart PiggottScottish Book of the Year1958
One foot in Eden by Edwin MuirScottish Book of the Year1956
Highland River by Neil Miller GunnBook of the Year1937
Lord Bothwell and Mary Queen of Scots: A Study of the Life, Character and Times of James Hepbu by Robert Gore-BrowneScottish Book of the Year1937

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