Prizewinning and Shortlisted Books
Bad Catholics
, the first book in the thrilling Jimmy Costello's series by James Green, was shortlisted for the Specsavers Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger in the year 2009.
The Bannockburn Years
by William Scott won the 1997 Constable Trophy.
Bodywork
by Dilys Rose was shortlisted for the 2008 Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Awards in the Poetry category.
The Bower Bird
by Ann Kelley is won the Costa Children's Award and the UK literacy Association Book Award. The Bower Bird also won the 2008 Cornish Literary Guild's Literary Salver.
The Burying Beetle
by Ann Kelley was shorlisted for Brandford Boase Award and was selected for the WH Smith New Talent Initiative.
But n Ben A-Go-Go
by Matthew Fitt was one of The List/Scottish Book Trust 100 All Time Best Scottish Books.
Caledonian Cramboclink
by William Neill includes work from the book Wild Places which was shortlisted for the Autumn 1985 Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
Da Happie Laand
by Robert Alan Jamieson was shortlisted for the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and for the fiction category for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2011. The book has also recently reached the longlist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012.
Eye for an Eye
by Frank Muir was the winner of the Pitlochry Award.
The Fatal Sleep
by Peter Kennedy was highly commended in the BMA Popular Medicine Book Awards.
The Great Melnikov
by Hugh McLachlan was shorlisted for the Sagittarius Prize.
Homage to Caledonia: Scotland and the Spanish Civil War
by Daniel Gray was shortlisted for the History Book of the Year category of the 2009 Saltire Literary Awards.
Me and Ma Gal
by Des Dillon was one of The List/Scottish Book Trust 100 All Time Best Scottish Books and shortlisted for the 1995 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award.
Mountain Days and Bothy Nights
by Dave Brown and Ian R. Mitchell was featured in World Book Day's We Are What We Read selection.
The Price of Scotland
by Douglas Watt won the 2008 Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History.
The Prisoner of St Kilda
was shortlisted for the 2010 Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award.
Red Sky at Night
by John Barrington was shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Council Book Awards in Spring 1985.
Right to Die
by Hazel McHaffie was highly commended for the BMA Popular Medicine Book Awards.
Scar Hill
by Alan Temperley was shortlisted for the 2011 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2011 UKLA Children's Book Awards.
Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers
by Ian R. Mitchell won the Outdoor Writers Guild Book Award.
Six Black Candles
by Des Dillon won the 2000 Television Arts Performance Showcase Writer of the Year Award, 2001 International Festival of Playwriting Award and the 2004 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland (Best Ensemble Play).
The Ultimate Guide to the Munros (Volume 1)
by Ralph Storer won a Highly Commended award at the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Award for Excellence.
This Road is Red
by Alison Irvine has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year award 2011.
A View from the Ridge
by Dave Brown and Ian R Mitchell won the 1991 Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature.
Writing in the Sand
by Angus Dunn was shortlisted for the Saltire Society's First Book Award.
Yesterday's Sins
by James Green was shortlisted for the 2010 East Midlands Book Award.