This is similar to other Scottish writers such as poets Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead, and playwright Ena Lamont Stewart, who have also sought to capture the idiosyncrasies of Scottish dialogue in ...

In a bid to shake up the study texts for English courses, the SQA has told teachers they can drop Shakespeare in favour of Scottish poets and writers, even though the Bard of Avon is credited with ...

Carl MacDougall, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead and Iain Banks explore Scottish writing ... to the power of place and landscape in Scottish literature. 1. Read good poetry, the best, modern or ...

Caroline McCracken-Flesher teaches the British nineteenth-century, the novel wherever it is to be found, Scottish literature and culture, the postcolonial, literary theory, British comedy, the ...

“By any measure Sunset Song isn’t only one of the supreme Scottish achievements of the last 100 years, it’s one of the supreme achievements of European literature. It’s up there with the ...

A multiple award winner, the novelist, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been knighted and made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to literature. Early one ...

A Scottish mansion where writers Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth were reputed to have smoked opium has been brought to the market. Sir Walter lived at the house for six years and was also ...