Northern Literary Lights

PART OF THE ScotBookFlood ISSUE

A visual snapshot of some of our favourite Scottish-Nordic books for Book Week Scotland 2017.

David MacPhail’s ScotBookFlood recommendations and a gruesome Viking giveaway!

‘Reviewing this smörgåsbord of European relationships, where does a post-Brexit Scotland fit in?’

Payback with Claire Macleary!

‘Ever since she’d talked Maggie Laird into picking up the reins of her late husband’s ailing private …
Lark by Anthony McGowan wins the Carnegie Medal!

‘I hit the ground and felt the snow under me, and under the snow the hardness of the frozen earth. T …
A Killing in Van Diemens Land – John Mackenzie Returns!

‘A vision flashed through his mind of the killer entering here, but why did he or she descend into t …
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape

‘Satisfaction alternates between quiet peace and raging gouts of dizzy joy.’
Stories from Home: An Anthology of Stories & Poems

‘Ninety-five million views. As nobody says, it was pure influential gold.’
Stay At Home! Poems and Prose for Children in Lockdown

‘This book is about lockdown – the good bits, the bad bits, and the ugly bits when nobody could get …