Saltire Society Literary Awards

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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.

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History

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

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

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] . The shortlist consisted of The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography, by Robert Crawford, The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables, by Seamus Heaney, The Lamplighter, by Jackie Kay and Piano Angel, by Esther Woolfson.

In 2014, the Scottish Literary Book of the Year was awarded, [7] but was replaced after only one year by separate awards for Fiction Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Book of the Year

As of 2022, the Saltire Society presents awards in seven categories for books, and three awards for publishers: [5]

In 2019, a Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced, the inaugural prize going to Alasdair Gray. [9] [10] [11]

Subsequent winners of the lifetime achievement have been:

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. [14]

Past winners

Scottish Book of the Year

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. [14]

YearWorkAuthorRef(s)
1937Highland River Neil M. Gunn [1]
The Lord Bothwell Robert Gore-Browne
1939Three Plays Robert McLellan [1]
1956One Foot in Eden Edwin Muir [1]
1958Scotland Before History Stuart Piggott [1]
1982 Lanark: A Life in Four Books Alasdair Gray [15]
1983Collected Poems Derick Thomson
Poems of Thirty Years Edwin Morgan
1984God and the Poets: The Gifford Lectures David Daiches
Intimate Voices: Selected Works Tom Leonard
1985Collected Poems Norman MacCaig
1986A Storm from Paradise Stuart Hood
1987The Stories of Muriel Spark Muriel Spark
1988Games with Shadows Neal Ascherson
The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy Tom Nairn
1989A Question of Loyalties Allan Massie
1990O Choille gu Bearradh / From Wood to Ridge Sorley MacLean
1991Scottish Art 1460–1990 Duncan Macmillan
1992Collected Poems Iain Crichton Smith
1993Robert 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
1997Grace Notes Bernard MacLaverty
1998 The Sopranos Alan Warner
1999Pursuits George Bruce
2000The Lantern Bearers Ronald Frame
2001Medea Liz Lochhead
2002Clara Janice Galloway [16]
2003 Joseph Knight James Robertson
2004 In Another Light Andrew Greig [17]
2005 Case Histories Kate Atkinson [18]
2006A Lie About My Father John Burnside
2007 Day A. L. Kennedy
2008 Kieron Smith, Boy James Kelman [19]
2009The Bard: Robert Burns, a Biography Robert Crawford [20]
2010 And the Land Lay Still James Robertson [21]
2011A Life in Pictures Alasdair Gray
2012 Mo Said She Was Quirky James Kelman
2013 Something Like Happy John Burnside [22]
2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740–1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean [23] [24]
2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber [25]
2016 The Bonniest Companie Kathleen Jamie [26]
2017 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe Kapka Kassabova [27]
2018All That Remains Sue Black [28]
2019Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community Kirstie Blair [29]
2020No award given
2021 Duck Feet Ely Percy [30]
2022Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotlandand the CaribbeanDavid Alston
2023Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All BeganLeah Hazard [31]


Scottish Literary Book of the Year

The award for Literary Book of the Year was introduced in 2014, and was open to fiction, non-fiction or plays .The award only existed for one year before being replaced by separate awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction

YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2014 How to Be Both Ali Smith Winner [32]
All the Rage A L Kennedy Shortlist [33]
Gone Are the Leaves Anne Donovan
Where Memories Go Sally Magnusson
Cala BenditaMartin MacIntyre
The James Plays Rona Munro


Scottish Fiction Book of the Year

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

YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2015 The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber Winner [34]
The Illuminations Andrew O'Hagan Shortlist [35]
A Decent Ride Irvine Welsh
Jellyfish Janice Galloway
An DosanNorma Nicleod
God in Ruins Kate Atkinson
2016His Bloody Project Graeme Macrae Burnet Winner [26]
The Blade Artists Irvine Welsh Shortlist [36]
Dirt Road James Kelman
The Sunlight Pilgrims Jenni Fagan
This Must Be the Place Maggie O'Farrell
The Brilliant and Forever Kevin MacNeil
2017Memory and Straw Angus Peter Campbell Winner [27]
Midwinter Break Bernard MacLaverty Shortlist [37]
The Long Drop Denise Mina
That Was a Shiver James Kelman
DalilaJason Donald
Ashland and Vine John Burnside
2018Elsewhere, Home Leila Aboulela Winner [38]
A Treachery of Spies Manda Scott Shortlist [39]
Dead Men's Trousers Irvine Welsh
The Growing Season Helen Sedgwick
The Great Chain of Unbeing Andrew Crumey
The Sealwoman's Gift Sally Magnusson
2019Nina X Ewan Morrison Winner [40]
Bird Summons Leila Aboulela Shortlist [41]
You Will Be Safe HereDamian Barr
Tiger Polly Clark
Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann
Còig Duilleagan na Seamraig (Five Leaves of the Shamrock)Ruairidh MacIlleathain (Roddy MacLean)
2020No award given
2021Duck FeetEly PercyWinner [42]
Scabby Queen Kirstin Innes Shortlist [43]
Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart
Luckenbooth Jenni Fagan
There's Only One Danny Garvey David F. Ross
2022Blood & Gold: A Journey of ShadowsMara MenziesWinner [44]
Be Guid Tae Yer MammyEmma GraeShortlist [45]
Cwen Alice Albinia
News of the Dead James Robertson
The PharmacistRachelle Atalla
Young Mungo Douglas Stuart
2023 In Ascension Martin MacInnes Winner [13]
crann-fie/Fig TreeDuncan GilliesShortlist [12]
ElectricityAndrew Peter Campbell
Hell SansEver Dundas
Mother SeaLorraine Wilson
Orpheus Builds a GirlHeather Parry


Scottish First Book of the Year

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. [14]

YearWorkAuthorRef(s)
1988The Richt Noise Raymond Vettese
1989Cells of Knowledge Sian Hayton
1990The Ballad of Sawney Bain Harry Tait
1991Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains A. L. Kennedy
1992Adoption Papers Jackie Kay
Uirsgeul/Myth Christopher Whyte
1993Robert Louis Stevenson: Dreams of Exile Ian Bell [46]
1994 Music, in a Foreign Language Andrew Crumey [47]
1995 Free Love and Other Stories Ali Smith
1996Slattern Kate Clanchy
1997A Painted Field Robin Robertson
1998The Pied Piper's Poison Christopher Wallace
Two Clocks Ticking Dennis O'Donnell
1999Some Rain Must Fall Michel Faber
2000The Rising Sun Douglas Galbraith
2001In the Blue House Meaghan Delahunt
2002Burns the Radical Liam McIlvanney [16]
The Cutting Room Louise Welsh
2003Ath – Aithne Martainn Mac an t-Saoir
2004Stargazing Peter Hill [17]
2005Amande's Bed John Aberdein [18]
2006George Mackay Brown: The Life Maggie Fergusson
2007Fresh Mark McNay
2008The Good Mayor Andrew Nicoll


YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2009The Tin-Kin Eleanor Thom Winner [20]
ChokechainJason DonaldShortlist [48]
Eating PomegranatesSarah Gabriel
Cainnt na Caileige CaillteAlison Lang
Chapel at the Edge of the WorldKirsten McKenzie
2010 The History of Orkney Literature Simon W. Hall Winner [21]
The Death of Lomond Friel Sue Peebles
The Prisoner of St Kilda: The True Story of the Unfortunate Lady GrangeMargaret MacauleyShortlist [49]
And This Is TrueEmily Mackie
A' Ghlainne agus Sgeulachdan EileMàiri E. NicLeòid
HomecomingsDonald Paterson
2011 The Echo Chamber Luke Williams Winner [50]
Island of WingsKarin AltenbergShortlist [51]
This Road Is RedAlsion Irvine
Let Not the Waves of the SeaSimon Stephenson
2012The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double Agent Sarah Fraser Winner
Air Bilean an t-Sluaigh: Sealladh air Leantalachd Beul-Aithris Ghàidhlig Uibhist a Tuath Maighread A. ChallanShortlist [52]
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice Cream Float Before He Stole My MaKerry Hudson
The IncomersMoira McPartlin
FurnaceWayne Price
RamshackleElizabeth Reeder
2013 Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach Tim Armstrong Winner [22]
As Far As I Can See Eunice Buchanan
The Necessary Death of Lewis WinterMalcolm MackayShortlist [53]
Nothing Is HeavyVicky Jarrett
Kaleb's ListKellan MacInnnes
2014Moontide Niall Campbell Winner [23]
Any Other MouthAnneliese MackintoshShortlist [54]
The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle Kirsty Wark
The Monster's WifeKate Horsley
The Last Pair of EarsMary F McDonough
The Rental Heart Kirsty Logan
2015On the Edges of Vision Helen McClory [34]
60 Degrees North Malachy Tallack Shortlist [35]
AirstreamAudrey Henderson
Lie of the LandMichael F Russell
The Liepzig Affair Fiona Rintoul
The Peoples ReferendumPeter Geogheghan
2016Trials on Death Row Isabel Buchanan Winner [26]
ExpectingChitra Ramaswamy
Infinite Ground Martin McInnes Shortlist [36]
This Changes Things Claire Askew
2017Goblin Ever Dundas Winner [27]
The Case RoomKate HunterShortlist [37]
Language of My Choosing: The Candid Life-Memoir of an Italian ScotAnne Pia
Beneath the SkinSandra Ireland
Mary's the NameRoss Sayers
FallowDaniel Shand
2018Sal Mick Kitson Winner [55]
AmphibianChristina NeuwirthShortlist [39]
St Kilda: The Silent IslandsAlex Boyd
A' Togail an t-SrùbainCalum L. MacLeòid
2019Threads of Life Clare Hunter Winner [56]
Seafarers: A Journey Among Birds Stephen Rutt
Overlander: Bikepacking Coast to Coast Across the Heart of the HighlandsAlan BrownShortlist [41]
Escape from Earth: A Secret History of the Space RocketFraser MacDonald
A Superior SpectreAngela Meyer
2020No award given
2021Bleak: The Mundane Comedy Roddy Murray Winner [42]
Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema Vanessa HarryhausenShortlist [43]
The Young Team Graeme Armstrong
A Kind of Spark Elle McNicoll
Mother, NatureAoife Lyall
If Rivers Could SingKeith Broomfield
2022In: The Graphic Novel Will McPhail Winner [44]
A Sky Full of KitesTom BowserShortlist [45]
I Am Not Your EveDevika Ponnambalam
LimboGeorgi Gill
The Second Sight of Zachary CloudesleySean Lusk
The VoidsRyan O’Connor
2023For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain Viktoria MacKenzie Winner [13]
Confessions of a Highland Art DealerTony DavidsonShortlist [12]
Ginger and MeElissa Soave
My Margaret, Your ToshieKeith Adamson
The MaidenKate Foster
The Two-Headed WhaleSandy Winterbottom


Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year

The award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year was introduced in 2015

YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2015Adventures in Human BeingGavin FrancisWinner [34]
Young EliotRobert CrawfordShortlist [35]
LifebloodGill Fyfe
This Is ScotlandDaniel Gray & Alan McCredie
2016Other People's MoneyJohn KayWinner [26]
A Little History of ReligionRichard HollowayShortlist [36]
Fallen GloryJames Crawford
Glasgow: Mapping the CityJohn Moore
The OutrunAmy Liptro
2017Border: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka KassabovaWinner [27]
Al Britannia, My Country: A Journey Through Muslim BritainJames FergusonShortlist [37]
Scotland: Mapping the Islandsedited by Christopher Fleet, Charles W.J. Withers, and Margaret Wilkes
Love of CountryMadeleine Bunting
Waypoints: Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West CoastIan Stephen
The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported ScotlandPeter Ross
2018All That Remains: A Life in DeathProfessor Sue BlackWinner [28]
Appointment in ArezzoAlan TaylorShortlist [57]
Moscow CallingAngus Roxburgh
Robert Louis Stevenson in SamoaJoseph Farrell
The Story of LookingMark Cousins
Waiting for the Last BusRichard Holloway
2019The World I Fell Out OfMelanie ReidWinner [28]
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught MeKate ClanchyShortlist [58]
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest TownsKerry Hudson
Seòl Mo Bheatha (My Life Journey)DòmhnallEachann Meek (Donald E. Meek)
Jane Haining: A Life of Love and CourageMary Miller
My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World’s Most Violent Men Dr David Wilson
2020No award given
2021A Tomb with a ViewPeter RossWinner [42]
Native: Life in a Vanishing LandscapePatrick LaurieShortlist [43]
Islands of AbandonmentCal Flyn
Ruxton: The First Modern MurderTom Wood
The See-Through House: My Father in Full ColourShelley Klein
CheckpointJoe Donnelley
2022Homelands: The History of a FriendshipChitra RamaswamyWinner [59]
Alison Watt: A Portrait Without LikenessAlison WattShortlist [60]
Alternatives to ValiumAlistair McKay
One BodyCatherine Simpson
The Eternal Season: A Journey Through Our Changing British SummerStephen Rutt
Seven Ways to Change the WorldGordon Brown
2023Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All BeganLeah HazardWinner [13]
A Pebble in the Throat: Growing Up Between Two ContinentsAasmah MirShortlist [12]
Boy FriendsMichael Pederson
Avacado AnxietyLoiuse Gray
The Edge of the PlainJames Crawford


Scottish Poetry Book of the Year

The award for Poetry Book of the Year was introduced in 2014

YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2014Bones and BreathAlexander HutchisonWinner [24]
All in One BreathJohn BurnsideShortlist [61]
ByssusJen Hadfield
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to ZionKei Miller
At MaldonJ O Morgan
Locust and MarlinJ L Williams
2015KillochriesJim CarruthWinner [34]
Cream of the WellValerie GilliesShortlist [35]
Not All HoneyRoddy Lumsden
The Good DarkRyan Van Winkle
2016The The Bonniest CompanieKathleen JamieWinner [26]
40 SonetsDon PatersonShortlist [36]
GalorePeter MacKay
Interference PatternJ O Morgan
This Far Back Everything ShimmersVicki Husband
The Golden MeanJohn Glenday
2017Bird-WomanEm StrangWinner [27]
Still Life with Feeding Snake John Burnside Shortlist [37]
Farm By the ShoreThomas A Clark
Twist Pippa Little
In Search of Dustie-FuteDavid Kinlock
Moon For SaleRichard Price
2018WristwatchJay WhittakerWinner [62]
Bantam Jackie Kay Shortlist [39]
So Glad I'm Me Roddy Lumsden
The Long TakeRobin Robertson
Who Is Mary Sue?Sophie Collins
2019Hand Over Mouth MusicJanette AyachiWinner [63]
The GamesHarry Josephine GilesShortlist [41]
I'm a Pretty CirclerIain Morrison
Moder DyRoseanne Watt
Ceum air CheumChristopher Whyte
Line DrawingsRoss Wilson
2020No award given
2021Life Without Air Daisy Lafarge Winner [42]
Nàdar De (Some Kind Of)Padraigh Macaoidh (Patrick Mackay)Shortlist [43]
The Threadbare CoatThomas A Clark
ClydebuiltOwen Gallagher
Ben DorainGarry Mackenzie
Later That Day Andrew Greig
2022How to Burn a Woman Claire Askew Winner [44]
At Least This I KnowAndrés N OrdoricaShortlist [45]
Blood Salt SpringHannah Lavery
PolarisMarcas Mac an Tuairneir
The Luna ErratumMaria Sledmere
2023Dastram / DeliriumTaylor StricklandWinner [13]
Another Way to Split WaterAlycia PirmohamShortlist [12]
Burning SeasonYvonne Reddick
The SwailingPatrick James Errington
Too Hot to SleepElspeth Wilson


Scottish History Book of the Year

The award for History Book of the Year was established in 1965 in honour of the historian Agnes Mure Mackenzie (1891–1955). It was only awarded intermittently until 1994 when it became an annual award. [64]

YearWorkAuthorRef(s)
1965Robert Bruce G W S Barrow [65]
1974Kings and Kingship in Early ScotlandMarjorie O Anderson [66]
1975Scottish Banking: A History 1695-1973S G Checkland [67]
1977Scottish Population HistoryM Flinn, P T C Smout, Rosalind Mitchison, Judith Gillespie, Nancy Hill, Ailsa Maxwell [68]
1982Thomas Chalmers and the Godly CommonwealthStewart J. Brown [69]
1986A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950 T. C. Smout [70]
1994James I Michael Brown
1995The Great Highland Famine Tom Devine
1996No award given
1997The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III 1371–1406 Stephen Boardman
1998The Identity of the Scottish Nation William Ferguson
1999Patrick Sellar and the Highland Clearances: Homicide, Eviction and the Price of ProgressEric Richards
2000The Rough Wooings: Mary Queen of Scots 1542–1551 Marcus Merriman
2001The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament: Politics and the Three Estates 1424–1488Roland Tanner [71]
2002The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern ScotlandMargo Todd
2004Adventurers and Exiles: The Great Scottish ExodusMarjory Harper [17]
2005David IIMichael Penman [18]
2006Native Lordships in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox c.1140–1365 Cynthia J. Neville [72]
2006Scotland's Historic HeraldryBruce A. McAndrew [73]
2007The Scots and the Union Christopher Whatley [74]
2008From Pictland to Alba 789–1070 Alex Woolf [75]
YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2009A History of Scottish Philosophy Alexander Broadie Winner [76]
From Caledonia to Pictland Scotland to 795James E FraserShortlist
Edinburgh: A History of the CityMichael Fry
'Homage to CaledoniaDaniel Gray
From Peat Bog to Conifer ForestRuth Tittlensor
2010Whaur Extremes Meet: Scotland's Twentieth CenturyCatriona M. M. MacDonaldWinner [77]
2011The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth Century History Emma Rothschild Winner [78]
Scottish Ethnicity and the Making of New Zealand SocietyTanya BueltmannShortlist [79]
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750-2010T M Devine
Elite Women and Polite Society in 18th Century ScotlandKatharine Glover
Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622Ernest R Holloway III
Men of Spirit and EnterpriseSuzanne Rigg
Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books & their Readers in Provincial Scotland, 1750-1820Mark Towsey
Enlightened Evangelicalism - the life and thought of John ErskineJonathan M Yeagher
2012A Military History of ScotlandE. Spiers, J. Crang and M. Strickland (editors)Winner [64]
Women of MorrayS. Bennett, M. Byatt, J. Main, A. Oliver, J. TrythallShortlist [52]
Scotland's Radical Export - The Scots Abroad- How they Shaped Politics and Trade Unions Pat Kelly
Scotland's First Oil Boom - The Scottish Shale-Oil Industry, 1851–1914 John MacKay
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007Alvin Jackson
2013An Enlightened Duke: The Life of Archibald Campbell (1682–1761), Earl of Ilay, 3rd Duke of ArgyllRoger L. EmersonWinner [22]
Death,Life and Religious Change in Scottish Towns, C. 1350 – 1560Mairi CowanShortlist [80]
Scotland No More? The Scots who left Scotland in the Twentieth CenturyMarjory Harper
The Firth of the Forth: An Environmental History T C Smout and Mairi Stewart
Annie’s Loo: the Govan origins of Scotland’s Community Based Housing AssociationsRaymond Young
2014Scottish Gods, Religion in the Modern Scotland 1900–2012Steve BruceWinner [23]
Cosmo Innes and the Defence of Scotland’s PastRichard A MarsdenShortlist [81]
Governing Gaeldom:The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1600-1688Allan Kennedy
A New Race of MenMichael Fry
Painting the Town: Scottish Urban History in ArtE P Dennison, S Eydmann, A Lyell, M Lynch & S Stronach
2015A Chasm in Time – Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth CenturyPatricia R. AndrewWinner [34]
A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700Anthony CookShortlist [82]
John KnoxJane Dawson
The Going Down of the Sun: The Great War and a Rural Lewis CommunityDonald A Robinson (editor)
2016Set Adrift Upon the WorldJames HunterWinner [26]
A Tale of Three CitiesBob HarrisShortlist [36]
Castles in the MistRobin Noble
Oil Strike North SeaMike Stephen
Shetland and the Great WarJames Hunter
St KildaA Gannon Geddes
2017No award given
2018The Drowned and the SavedLes WilsonWinner [83]
Sir David Nairne. The Life of a Scottish Jacobite at the Court of the Exiled StuartsEdward CorpShortlist [39]
Scotland's Populations from the 1850s to TodayMichael Anderson
Scots & Catalans: Union and DisunionJ H Elliott
Scottish Presbyterianism and Settler Colonial Politics: Empire of DissentValerie Wallace
2019Alexander III, 1249–1286: First Among EqualsNorman ReidWinner [84]
John Law, A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth CenturyJames BuchanShortlist [85] [41]
The Sea Kings: The Late Norse Kingdoms of Man and the Isles, c.1066-1275R Andrew Macdonald
The Darkest Dawn: The Story of the IolaireMalcolm Macdonald and Donald John MacLeod
Lord Seaforth, Highland Landowner, Caribbean GovernorFinlay McKichan
Frederick Douglass and Scotland: Living an Antislavery LifeAlasdair Pettinger
2020No award given
2021Stuart Style: Monarchy, Dress and the Scottish Male EliteMaria HaywardWinner [42]
History with Heart and SoulNess Historical Society Editorial Team with Rachel BarrowmanShortlist [43]
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar ScotlandEwan Biggs
Union and Revolution: Scotland and Beyond 1625 – 1745Laura Stewart and Janay Nugent
David I: King of Scots 1124 – 1153 Richard Oram
Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking AgeFiona Edmonds
2022Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean David AlstonWinner [44]
Blood Legacy: Reckoning with a Family's History of Slavery Alex Renton Shortlist [45]
Mael Coluim III, Canmore Neil McGuigan
R.B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political AestheticLachlan Gow Munro
Embroidering Her TruthClare Hunter
Putting the Tea in BritainLes Wilson
2023The People Are Not There: The Transformation of Badenoch 1800–1863David TaylorWinner [86]
The Material Landscapes of Scotland’s Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914Sarah LaurensonShortlist [12]
Majestic River: Mungo Park and the Exploration of the NigerCharles Withers
One Mans Legacy: Tom PateyMike Dixon
The Whalers of HarrisIan Hart
The Early Life of James VI: A Long Apprenticeship, 1566–1585Stephen J Reid


Scottish Research Book of the Year

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". [14]

YearWorkAuthorRef(s)
1998The Edinburgh History of the Scots LanguageCharles Jones
1999The Poems of William Dunbar (Volumes I & II)Priscilla Bawcutt
2000 Jessie Kesson: Writing her Life Isobel Murray
The Highland Pipe and Scottish SocietyWilliam Donaldson
2001The Scottish Book Trade 15001720Alastair J. Mann
2002 Sorley MacLean , Poems to Eimhir Christopher Whyte (editor) [16]
Public Sculpture of GlasgowRay McKenzie
2003 The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection Emily B. Lyle and Katherine Campbell
2004The Last of England?Randall Stevenson [17]
Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William MacKinnon and his Business Network 1823–1893J. Forbes Munro
2005Weights and Measures in ScotlandR. D. Connor and A. D. C. Simpson, edited by Alison Morrison-Low [18]
2006Dùthchas Nan Gàidheal: Selected Essays of John MacInnesMichael Newton
2007Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature Robert Crawford
2008Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic EdinburghIan Duncan
2009 Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon [20]
2010Robert Burns & Pastoral: Poetry and Improvement in Late Eighteenth-Century ScotlandNigel Leask [21]
Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeNicholas Phillipson
2011Beyond the Last DragonJames McGonigal
YearWorkAuthorResultRef(s)
2012Scotland: Mapping the NationC. Fleet, C. Withers and M. WilkesWinner
The Sexual State - Sexuality and Scottish Governance 1950-80R. Davidson & G. DavisShortlist [52]
The Grand Designer Rosemary Hannah
Dear Grieve: Letter to Hugh MacDiarmidJohn Mansen
Jamieson's Dictionary of ScotsSusan Rennie
2013The Sunlit Summit: The Life of W. H. Murray Robin Lloyd-Jones Winner [22]
A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and FableAin CroftonShortlist [80]
Visions of Britain, 1730-1830Sebastian Mitchell
Nancy Brysson Morrison: A Literary LifeMary Seenan
2014 The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740–1820 Bob Harris and Charles McKean Winner [23] [7]
The Eagles WayJim CrumleyShortlist [87]
The K2 Man (and his Molluscs)Catherine Moorehead
Material Culture and Sedition 1688—1760Murray Pittock
Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing CommunitiesRobert McColl Millar, William Barras & Lisa Maria Bonnici
Landscapes of Protest in the Scottish Highlands after 1914Iain J M Robertson
2015Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930Tanja BueltmannWinner [34]
Microbes and the Fetlar Man: The Life of Sir William Watson CheyneJane CouttsShortlist [82]
The Voice of the People: Hamish Henderson and Scottish Cultural PoliticsCorey Gibson
The Native Woodlands of ScotlandScott Wilson
2016The Literary Culture of Early Modern ScotlandSebastiaan VerweijWinner [26]
Vikings in Islay: The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement HistoryAlan McNivenShortlist [36]
James Hogg and British Romanticism: A Kaleidoscopic ArtMeiko O'Halloran
Scottish Arctic Whaling 1750-WWIChesley Sanger
The Wild Black Region: Badenock 1750-1800David Taylor
2017The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive VersePeter Mackay & Iain MacPhersonWinner [27]
The Campbells of the Ark: Men of Argyll in 1745 (Vol I and II)Ronald BlackShortlist [37]
Muslims in Scotland: The Making of Community in a Post-9/11 WorldStefano Bonino
History as Theatrical MetaphorIan Brown
Immortal Memory: Burns and the Scottish PeopleChristopher Whatley
2018What the Victorians Made of Romanticism: Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception HistoryTom MoleWinner [88]
Early Cinema in ScotlandJohn Caughie, Trevor Griffiths and María A. Vélez-SernaShortlist [39]
Literature and Union: Scottish Texts, British ContextsGerard Carruthers and Colin Kidd
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian CeylonAngela McCarthy and Sir Tom Devine
The Chair of Verity: Political Preaching and Pulpit Censure in Eighteenth-century ScotlandRonald Lyndsay Crawford
2019Working Verse in Victorian Scotland: Poetry, Press, Community Kirstie Blair Winner [89]
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900T M DevineShortlist [90] [41]
Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands SagaLaura Watts
2020No award given
2021Darkness Visible: The Sculptor’s Cave, Covesa, from the Bronze Age to the PictsIan Armit and Lindsey BusterWinner [42]
Gaelic in Scotland: Politics, Movements, IdeologiesWilson McLeodShortlist [43]
Stepping Westward Nigel Leask
Terrorists, Anarchists and RepublicansRichard Whatmore
The Changing Outer HebridesFrank Rennie
2022Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and Photography Now(ed) Patricia MacdonaldWinner [44]
A Long and Tangled SagaBob ChambersShortlist [45]
Ainmean Tuineachaidh Leòdhais /The Settlement Names of LewisRichard A v Cox
Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century Craig Beveridge
Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority of History in Late Medieval ScotlandKathernie H Terrell
2023 The Old Red Sandstone, or, New Walks in an Old FieldHugh MillerWinner [91]
Mousa to Mackintosh: The Scottishness of Scottish ArchitectureFrank Arneil WalkerShortlist [12]
Cha Till Mise Ruaraidh G MacIlleathain
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