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Saltire Society Literary Awards

January 01, 1970

Not to be confused with Saltire Prize.

Scotland's National Book Awards, formerly known as the Saltire Society Literary Awards, are made annually by the Saltire Society. First awarded in 1937, they are awarded for books by Scottish authors or about Scotland, and are awarded in several categories.

History edit

The first Saltire Society Book Award was given in 1937, the year after the Saltire Society was established. No awards were given after 1939 due to the Second World War, and the next award was made 1956. The History Book of the Year award was inaugurated in 1965. In 1982 sponsorship was obtained and since then the awards have been made annually. First books have been recognised since 1988, and in 1998 the award for Scottish Research Book of the Year was established.[1]

Until around 2021, the awards were known as the Saltire Society Literary Awards, subtitled Scotland's National Book Awards,[2] but then took on the subtitle as the name covering all of the literary awards that the society awards: Scotland's National Book Awards, and are known by this name as of May 2023.[3]

Description edit

The awards seek to recognise books which are either by "living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland," or which deal with "the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish question, event or situation".[4]

As of 2022, the winner in each category receives an award created by artist Simon Baker of Evergreen Studios, based in Inverness; the winners of each literary award receive a cash prize of £2,000, while the winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year is given a further £4,000.[5]

Categories edit

A one-off Homecoming Book of the Year award was made in 2009 to celebrate the "Year of homecoming": the award was presented to American professor Donald Worster for his biography of John Muir, A Passion for Nature.[6]

In 2014, the Scottish Literary Book of the Year was awarded,[7] but did not return in subsequent years.

As of 2022, the Saltire Society presents awards in the seven following categories:[5]

  • Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award (formerly "Scottish Book of the Year")
  • Saltire Society First Book of the Year
  • Saltire Society History Book of the Year
  • Saltire Society Research Book of the Year
  • Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year (introduced in 2014)[7]
  • Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year (introduced in 2015)[8]
  • Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year (introduced in 2015)[8]
  • Saltire Society Book Cover Design of the Year
  • Saltire Society Publisher of the Year
  • Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year (awarded in partnership with Publishing Scotland)

In 2019, a Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced, the inaugural prize going to Alasdair Gray.[9][10][11] In 2022, Alexander McCall Smith won the prize.[5]

In addition, an annual student travel bursary is awarded to a creative writing graduate, and the Ross Roy Medal is awarded for the best PhD thesis on a subject related to Scottish literature.[12]

Past winners edit

Scottish Book of the Year edit

The Scottish Book of the Year award was established in 1937,[1] and has been given annually since 1982. The award is open to novels, poetry and plays as well as non-fiction works on Scottish subjects.[12]

Year Work Author Ref(s)
1937 Highland River Neil Gunn [1]
The Lord Bothwell Robert Gore-Browne
1939 Three Plays Robert McLellan [1]
1956 One Foot in Eden Edwin Muir [1]
1958 Scotland Before History Stuart Piggott [1]
1982 Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray [13]
1983 Collected Poems Derick Thomson
Poems of Thirty Years Edwin Morgan
1984 God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures David Daiches
Intimate Voices: Selected Works Tom Leonard
1985 Collected Poems Norman MacCaig
1986 A Storm From Paradise Stuart Hood
1987 The Stories of Muriel Spark Muriel Spark
1988 Games with Shadows Neal Ascherson
The Enchanted Glass: Britain and its Monarchy Tom Nairn
1989 A Question of Loyalties Allan Massie
1990 O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge Sorley MacLean
1991 Scottish Art 1460–1990 Duncan Macmillan
1992 Collected Poems Iain Crichton Smith
1993 Robert Burns – A Biography James A. Mackay
1994 Beside the Ocean of Time George Mackay Brown
1995 Black Sea Neal Ascherson
1996 The Kiln William McIlvanney
1997 Grace Notes Bernard MacLaverty
1998 The Sopranos Alan Warner
1999 Pursuits George Bruce
2000 The Lantern Bearers Ronald Frame
2001 Medea Liz Lochhead
2002 Clara Janice Galloway [14]
2003 Joseph Knight James Robertson
2004 In Another Light Andrew Greig [15]
2005 Case Histories Kate Atkinson [16]
2006 A Lie About My Father John Burnside
2007 Day A. L. Kennedy
2008 Kieron Smith, boy James Kelman [17]
2009 The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography Robert Crawford [18]
2010 And the Land Lay Still James Robertson [19]
2011 A Life in Pictures Alasdair Gray
2012 Mo Said She Was Quirky James Kelman
2013 Something Like Happy John Burnside [20]
2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740-1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean [21]
2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber [22][23]
2016 The Bonniest Companie Kathleen Jamie [24]
2017 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova [25]
2018
2019
2020
2021 Duck Feet Ely Percy [26][27]
2022 Slaves and Highlanders:  Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean David Alston

Scottish Fiction of the Year edit

The fiction book of the year award was inaugurated in 2015.

Year Work Author Ref(s)
2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber [22][23]
2016 His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet [24]
2017 Memory and Straw Angus Peter Campbell [25]
2018 Elsewhere, Home Leila Aboulela [28]
2019 Nina X Ewan Morrison [29]
2020
2021 Duck Feet Ely Percy [26]
2022 Blood & Gold: A Journey of Shadows Mara Menzies

Scottish First Book of the Year edit

The first book of the year award was inaugurated in 1988 and recognises an author who has not previously published a book. As with the book of the year, the award is open to novels, plays, poems and non-fiction.[12]

Year Work Author Ref(s)
1988 The Richt Noise Raymond Vettese
1989 Cells of Knowledge Sian Hayton
1990 The Ballad of Sawney Bain Harry Tait
1991 Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains A. L. Kennedy
1992 Adoption Papers Jackie Kay
Uirsgeul/Myth Christopher Whyte
1993 Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams Of Exile Ian Bell [30]
1994 Music, in a Foreign Language Andrew Crumey [31]
1995 Free Love and Other Stories Ali Smith
1996 Slattern Kate Clanchy
1997 A Painted Field Robin Robertson
1998 The Pied Piper's Poison Christopher Wallace
Two Clocks Ticking Dennis O'Donnell
1999 Some Rain Must Fall Michel Faber
2000 The Rising Sun Douglas Galbraith
2001 In the Blue House Meaghan Delahunt
2002 Burns the Radical Liam McIlvanney [14]
The Cutting Room Louise Welsh
2003 Ath – Aithne Martainn Mac an t-Saoir
2004 Stargazing Peter Hill [15]
2005 Amande's Bed John Aberdein [16]
2006 George Mackay Brown: The Life Maggie Fergusson
2007 Fresh – A novel Mark McNay
2008 The Good Mayor Andrew Nicoll
2009 The Tin-Kin Eleanor Thom [18]
2010 The History of Orkney Literature Simon W. Hall [19]
The Death of Lomond Friel Sue Peebles
2011 The Echo Chamber Luke Williams
2012 The Last Highlander Sarah Fraser
2013 Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach Tim Armstrong [20]
As Far As I Can See Eunice Buchanan
2014 Moontide Niall Campbell [21]
2015 On the Edges of Vision Helen McClory [32][23]
2016 Trials on Death Row Isabel Buchanan [33]
Expecting Chitra Ramaswamy
2017 Goblin Ever Dundas [34]
2018 Sal Mick Kitson [35]
2019 Threads of Life Clare Hunter [36]
Seafarers Stephen Rutt
2020
2021 Bleak: The Mundane Comedy Roddy Murray [26]
2022 IN Will McPhail

Scottish History Book of the Year edit

The award for History Book of the Year was established in 1965 in honour of the historian Agnes Mure Mackenzie (1891–1955).[37]

Year Work Author Ref(s)
1982 Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth Stewart J. Brown
1983
1984
1985
1986 A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950 T. C. Smout
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994 James I Michael Brown
1995 The Great Highland Famine Tom Devine
1996
1997 The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III 1371–1406 Stephen Boardman
1998 The Identity of the Scottish Nation William Ferguson
1999 Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of Progress Eric Richards
2000 The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen Of Scots 1542–1551 Marcus Merriman
2001 The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates 1424–1488 Roland Tanner [38]
2002 The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland Margo Todd
2004 Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus Marjory Harper [15]
2005 David II Michael Penman [16]
2006 Native Lordships in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox c.1140–1365 Cynthia J. Neville [39]
2006 Scotland's Historic Heraldry Bruce A. McAndrew [40]
2007 The Scots and the Union Christopher Whatley [41]
2008 From Pictland to Alba 789–1070 Alex Woolf [42]
2009 A History of Scottish Philosophy Alexander Broadie [43]
2010 Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth Century Catriona M. M. MacDonald [44]
2011 The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth Century History Emma Rothschild [45]
2012 A Military History of Scotland E. Spiers, J. Crang and M. Strickland (editors) [37]
2013 An Enlightened Duke: The Life of Archibald Campbell (1682–1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of Argyll Roger L. Emerson [20]
2014 Scottish Gods, Religion in the Modern Scotland 1900–2012 Steve Bruce [21]
2015 A Chasm in Time – Scottish War Art And Artists in the Twentieth Century Patricia R. Andrew [46][23]
2016 Set Adrift Upon the World James Hunter [47]
2017
2018 The Drowned and the Saved Les Wilson [48]
2019 Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals Norman Reid [49]
2020
2021 Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male Elite Maria Hayward [26]
2022 Slaves and Highlanders:  Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean David Alston

Scottish Research Book of the Year edit

This award was initiated in 1998, and is made jointly by the Saltire Society and the National Library of Scotland. It aims to recognise books which "represent a significant body of research and offer new insight or dimension to the subject".[12]

Year Work Author Ref(s)
1998 The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language Charles Jones
1999 The Poems of William Dunbar (Volumes I & II) Priscilla Bawcutt
2000 Jessie Kesson: Writing her Life Isobel Murray
The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society William Donaldson
2001 The Scottish Book Trade 1500−1720 Alastair J. Mann
2002 Sorley Maclean, Poems to Eimhir Christopher Whyte (editor) [14]
Public Sculpture of Glasgow Ray McKenzie
2003 The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection Emily B. Lyle and Katherine Campbell
2004 The Last of England? Randall Stevenson [15]
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and his Business Network 1823–1893 J. Forbes Munro
2005 Weights and Measures in Scotland R. D. Connor and A. D. C. Simpson, edited by Alison Morrison-Low [16]
2006 Dùthchas Nan Gàidheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnes Michael Newton
2007 Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature Robert Crawford
2008 Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh Ian Duncan
2009 Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon [18]
2010 Robert Burns & Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland Nigel Leask [19]
Adam Smith: an Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson
2011 Beyond the Last Dragon James McGonigal
2012 Scotland: Mapping the Nation C. Fleet, C. Withers and M. Wilkes
2013 The Sunlit Summit: The Life of W. H. Murray Robin Lloyd-Jones [20]
2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740-1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean [21][7]
2015 Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930 Tanja Bueltmann [50][23]
2016 The literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland Sebastian Verweijj [51]
2017 The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse Peter Mackay & Iain MacPherson [52]
2018 What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History Tom Mole [53]
2019 Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community Kirstie Blair [54]
2020
2021 Darkness Visible: The Sculptor's Cave, Covesa, from the Bronze Age to the Picts Ian Armit & Lindsey Buster [26]
2022 Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now Patricia McDonald (ed)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f "The Saltire Society Book of the Year Awards: A celebration of twenty five years of literature". Scottish Arts Council. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  2. ^ . Saltire Society. 18 November 2013. Archived from the original on 26 April 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
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  6. ^ "Saltire Society Literary Awards – Winning Books". Books from Scotland. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
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  8. ^ a b "2015 Saltire Society Literary Awards Winners". The Saltire Society. Saltire Society Scotland. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  9. ^ "Gray awarded inaugural Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
  10. ^ "Alasdair Gray wins book award for influence 'running deep within Scotland'". The National.
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  13. ^ Glass, Rodge (2012). Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography. Bloomsbury. p. 166. ISBN 9781408833353.
  14. ^ a b c "Saltire awards ceremony at the library". National Library of Scotland. 12 December 2002.
  15. ^ a b c d "Saltire book awards announced". National Library of Scotland. 3 December 2004.
  16. ^ a b c d "Saltire Society awards announced at NLS". National Library of Scotland. 20 November 2005.
  17. ^ "Kelman takes top literary prize as Saltire awards get boost" 1 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, The Herald, Phil Miller, 29 November 2008.
  18. ^ a b c "Burns Biography takes Saltire main prize". National Library of Scotland. 27 November 2009.
  19. ^ a b c "Salmond's favourite book wins Saltire Society award". The Herald. 30 November 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  20. ^ a b c d Brian Ferguson (15 November 2013). "Gaelic science fiction wins literary prize". The Scotsman. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  21. ^ a b c d "Academic work named Saltire Book of the Year". BBC News. 11 November 2014. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
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  36. ^ "Scotland's National Book Awards 2019: First Book". The Saltire Society. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
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  38. ^ "Prestigious prize for Scottish Parliament research". University of St Andrews. 23 April 2003.
  39. ^ . Four Courts Press. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
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  • Strachan, Anne (1989) Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners Library Association Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-85365-558-8

Further reading edit

  • Marsden, Stevie (2021). Prizing Scottish Literature: A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards. Anthem Studies in Book History. Anthem Press. ISBN 9781785274824.

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Not to be confused with Saltire Prize Scotland s National Book Awards formerly known as the Saltire Society Literary Awards are made annually by the Saltire Society First awarded in 1937 they are awarded for books by Scottish authors or about Scotland and are awarded in several categories Contents 1 History 2 Description 3 Categories 4 Past winners 4 1 Scottish Book of the Year 4 2 Scottish Fiction of the Year 4 3 Scottish First Book of the Year 4 4 Scottish History Book of the Year 4 5 Scottish Research Book of the Year 5 See also 6 References 7 Further readingHistory editThe first Saltire Society Book Award was given in 1937 the year after the Saltire Society was established No awards were given after 1939 due to the Second World War and the next award was made 1956 The History Book of the Year award was inaugurated in 1965 In 1982 sponsorship was obtained and since then the awards have been made annually First books have been recognised since 1988 and in 1998 the award for Scottish Research Book of the Year was established 1 Until around 2021 the awards were known as the Saltire Society Literary Awards subtitled Scotland s National Book Awards 2 but then took on the subtitle as the name covering all of the literary awards that the society awards Scotland s National Book Awards and are known by this name as of May 2023 update 3 Description editThe awards seek to recognise books which are either by living authors of Scottish descent or residing in Scotland or which deal with the work or life of a Scot or with a Scottish question event or situation 4 As of 2022 update the winner in each category receives an award created by artist Simon Baker of Evergreen Studios based in Inverness the winners of each literary award receive a cash prize of 2 000 while the winner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year is given a further 4 000 5 Categories editA one off Homecoming Book of the Year award was made in 2009 to celebrate the Year of homecoming the award was presented to American professor Donald Worster for his biography of John Muir A Passion for Nature 6 In 2014 the Scottish Literary Book of the Year was awarded 7 but did not return in subsequent years As of 2022 update the Saltire Society presents awards in the seven following categories 5 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award formerly Scottish Book of the Year Saltire Society First Book of the Year Saltire Society History Book of the Year Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year introduced in 2014 7 Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year introduced in 2015 8 Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year introduced in 2015 8 Saltire Society Book Cover Design of the Year Saltire Society Publisher of the Year Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year awarded in partnership with Publishing Scotland In 2019 a Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced the inaugural prize going to Alasdair Gray 9 10 11 In 2022 Alexander McCall Smith won the prize 5 In addition an annual student travel bursary is awarded to a creative writing graduate and the Ross Roy Medal is awarded for the best PhD thesis on a subject related to Scottish literature 12 Past winners editScottish Book of the Year edit The Scottish Book of the Year award was established in 1937 1 and has been given annually since 1982 The award is open to novels poetry and plays as well as non fiction works on Scottish subjects 12 Year Work Author Ref s 1937 Highland River Neil Gunn 1 The Lord Bothwell Robert Gore Browne 1939 Three Plays Robert McLellan 1 1956 One Foot in Eden Edwin Muir 1 1958 Scotland Before History Stuart Piggott 1 1982 Lanark A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray 13 1983 Collected Poems Derick Thomson Poems of Thirty Years Edwin Morgan 1984 God and the Poets The Gifford Lectures David Daiches Intimate Voices Selected Works Tom Leonard 1985 Collected Poems Norman MacCaig 1986 A Storm From Paradise Stuart Hood 1987 The Stories of Muriel Spark Muriel Spark 1988 Games with Shadows Neal Ascherson The Enchanted Glass Britain and its Monarchy Tom Nairn 1989 A Question of Loyalties Allan Massie 1990 O Choille gu Bearradh From Wood to Ridge Sorley MacLean 1991 Scottish Art 1460 1990 Duncan Macmillan 1992 Collected Poems Iain Crichton Smith 1993 Robert Burns A Biography James A Mackay 1994 Beside the Ocean of Time George Mackay Brown 1995 Black Sea Neal Ascherson 1996 The Kiln William McIlvanney 1997 Grace Notes Bernard MacLaverty 1998 The Sopranos Alan Warner 1999 Pursuits George Bruce 2000 The Lantern Bearers Ronald Frame 2001 Medea Liz Lochhead 2002 Clara Janice Galloway 14 2003 Joseph Knight James Robertson 2004 In Another Light Andrew Greig 15 2005 Case Histories Kate Atkinson 16 2006 A Lie About My Father John Burnside 2007 Day A L Kennedy 2008 Kieron Smith boy James Kelman 17 2009 The Bard Robert Burns a Biography Robert Crawford 18 2010 And the Land Lay Still James Robertson 19 2011 A Life in Pictures Alasdair Gray 2012 Mo Said She Was Quirky James Kelman 2013 Something Like Happy John Burnside 20 2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740 1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean 21 2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 22 23 2016 The Bonniest Companie Kathleen Jamie 24 2017 Border A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova 25 2018 2019 2020 2021 Duck Feet Ely Percy 26 27 2022 Slaves and Highlanders Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean David Alston Scottish Fiction of the Year edit The fiction book of the year award was inaugurated in 2015 Year Work Author Ref s 2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber 22 23 2016 His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet 24 2017 Memory and Straw Angus Peter Campbell 25 2018 Elsewhere Home Leila Aboulela 28 2019 Nina X Ewan Morrison 29 2020 2021 Duck Feet Ely Percy 26 2022 Blood amp Gold A Journey of Shadows Mara Menzies Scottish First Book of the Year edit The first book of the year award was inaugurated in 1988 and recognises an author who has not previously published a book As with the book of the year the award is open to novels plays poems and non fiction 12 Year Work Author Ref s 1988 The Richt Noise Raymond Vettese 1989 Cells of Knowledge Sian Hayton 1990 The Ballad of Sawney Bain Harry Tait 1991 Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains A L Kennedy 1992 Adoption Papers Jackie Kay Uirsgeul Myth Christopher Whyte 1993 Robert Louis Stevenson Dreams Of Exile Ian Bell 30 1994 Music in a Foreign Language Andrew Crumey 31 1995 Free Love and Other Stories Ali Smith 1996 Slattern Kate Clanchy 1997 A Painted Field Robin Robertson 1998 The Pied Piper s Poison Christopher Wallace Two Clocks Ticking Dennis O Donnell 1999 Some Rain Must Fall Michel Faber 2000 The Rising Sun Douglas Galbraith 2001 In the Blue House Meaghan Delahunt 2002 Burns the Radical Liam McIlvanney 14 The Cutting Room Louise Welsh 2003 Ath Aithne Martainn Mac an t Saoir 2004 Stargazing Peter Hill 15 2005 Amande s Bed John Aberdein 16 2006 George Mackay Brown The Life Maggie Fergusson 2007 Fresh A novel Mark McNay 2008 The Good Mayor Andrew Nicoll 2009 The Tin Kin Eleanor Thom 18 2010 The History of Orkney Literature Simon W Hall 19 The Death of Lomond Friel Sue Peebles 2011 The Echo Chamber Luke Williams 2012 The Last Highlander Sarah Fraser 2013 Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach Tim Armstrong 20 As Far As I Can See Eunice Buchanan 2014 Moontide Niall Campbell 21 2015 On the Edges of Vision Helen McClory 32 23 2016 Trials on Death Row Isabel Buchanan 33 Expecting Chitra Ramaswamy 2017 Goblin Ever Dundas 34 2018 Sal Mick Kitson 35 2019 Threads of Life Clare Hunter 36 Seafarers Stephen Rutt 2020 2021 Bleak The Mundane Comedy Roddy Murray 26 2022 IN Will McPhail Scottish History Book of the Year edit This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items September 2012 The award for History Book of the Year was established in 1965 in honour of the historian Agnes Mure Mackenzie 1891 1955 37 Year Work Author Ref s 1982 Thomas Chalmers and the Godly Commonwealth Stewart J Brown 1983 1984 1985 1986 A Century of the Scottish People 1830 1950 T C Smout 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 James I Michael Brown 1995 The Great Highland Famine Tom Devine 1996 1997 The Early Stewart Kings Robert II and Robert III 1371 1406 Stephen Boardman 1998 The Identity of the Scottish Nation William Ferguson 1999 Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances Homicide Eviction and the Price of Progress Eric Richards 2000 The Rough Wooings Mary Queen Of Scots 1542 1551 Marcus Merriman 2001 The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament Politics and the Three Estates 1424 1488 Roland Tanner 38 2002 The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland Margo Todd 2004 Adventurers and Exiles The Great Scottish Exodus Marjory Harper 15 2005 David II Michael Penman 16 2006 Native Lordships in Medieval Scotland The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox c 1140 1365 Cynthia J Neville 39 2006 Scotland s Historic Heraldry Bruce A McAndrew 40 2007 The Scots and the Union Christopher Whatley 41 2008 From Pictland to Alba 789 1070 Alex Woolf 42 2009 A History of Scottish Philosophy Alexander Broadie 43 2010 Whaur Extremes Meet Scotland s Twentieth Century Catriona M M MacDonald 44 2011 The Inner Life of Empires An Eighteenth Century History Emma Rothschild 45 2012 A Military History of Scotland E Spiers J Crang and M Strickland editors 37 2013 An Enlightened Duke The Life of Archibald Campbell 1682 1761 Earl of Ilay 3rd Duke of Argyll Roger L Emerson 20 2014 Scottish Gods Religion in the Modern Scotland 1900 2012 Steve Bruce 21 2015 A Chasm in Time Scottish War Art And Artists in the Twentieth Century Patricia R Andrew 46 23 2016 Set Adrift Upon the World James Hunter 47 2017 2018 The Drowned and the Saved Les Wilson 48 2019 Alexander III 1249 1286 First Among Equals Norman Reid 49 2020 2021 Stuart Style Monarchy Dress and the Scottish Male Elite Maria Hayward 26 2022 Slaves and Highlanders Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean David Alston Scottish Research Book of the Year edit This award was initiated in 1998 and is made jointly by the Saltire Society and the National Library of Scotland It aims to recognise books which represent a significant body of research and offer new insight or dimension to the subject 12 Year Work Author Ref s 1998 The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language Charles Jones 1999 The Poems of William Dunbar Volumes I amp II Priscilla Bawcutt 2000 Jessie Kesson Writing her Life Isobel Murray The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society William Donaldson 2001 The Scottish Book Trade 1500 1720 Alastair J Mann 2002 Sorley Maclean Poems to Eimhir Christopher Whyte editor 14 Public Sculpture of Glasgow Ray McKenzie 2003 The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection Emily B Lyle and Katherine Campbell 2004 The Last of England Randall Stevenson 15 Maritime Enterprise and Empire Sir William MacKinnon and his Business Network 1823 1893 J Forbes Munro 2005 Weights and Measures in Scotland R D Connor and A D C Simpson edited by Alison Morrison Low 16 2006 Duthchas Nan Gaidheal Selected Essays of John MacInnes Michael Newton 2007 Scotland s Books The Penguin History of Scottish Literature Robert Crawford 2008 Scott s Shadow The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh Ian Duncan 2009 Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Christian Kay Jane Roberts Michael Samuels and Irene Wotherspoon 18 2010 Robert Burns amp Pastoral Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth Century Scotland Nigel Leask 19 Adam Smith an Enlightened Life Nicholas Phillipson 2011 Beyond the Last Dragon James McGonigal 2012 Scotland Mapping the Nation C Fleet C Withers and M Wilkes 2013 The Sunlit Summit The Life of W H Murray Robin Lloyd Jones 20 2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740 1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean 21 7 2015 Clubbing Together Ethnicity Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930 Tanja Bueltmann 50 23 2016 The literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland Sebastian Verweijj 51 2017 The Light Blue Book 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse Peter Mackay amp Iain MacPherson 52 2018 What the Victorians Made of Romanticism Material Artifacts Cultural Practices and Reception History Tom Mole 53 2019 Working Verse in Victorian Scotland Poetry Press Community Kirstie Blair 54 2020 2021 Darkness Visible The Sculptor s Cave Covesa from the Bronze Age to the Picts Ian Armit amp Lindsey Buster 26 2022 Surveying the Anthropocene Environment and Photography Now Patricia McDonald ed See also editScottish literature Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards formerly the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards List of history awards List of literary awards List of awards named after peopleReferences edit a b c d e f The Saltire Society Book of the Year Awards A celebration of twenty five years of literature Scottish Arts Council Retrieved 22 January 2014 Literature Saltire Society 18 November 2013 Archived from the original on 26 April 2021 Retrieved 11 May 2023 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