Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards

Given by Creative Scotland

Other Names: Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year, Scottish Arts Council Book Award
179 Works / 187 Items 276,191 Books 3,811 Reviews 4.2
- Scottish Arts Council’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards – is Scotland’s richest book awards, and the fourth largest in the UK. The Awards, started in 1970s and have gone show more from strength to strength, reflecting the growing prominence and prestige of Scottish literature. Winners of four categories of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry and first book each receive an award of £5,000, and the opportunity to go forward and have their book considered for the title of Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year 2008, an accolade which will net the author a total prize of £30,000. show less
Stages:
All, Book of the Year (12), Winner (31), Shortlist (96), No Stage (48)
Categories:
All, Children's Book (1), Fiction (33), First Book (28), Nonfiction (28), Poetry (26), No Category (71)
Years:
All, 2013 (19), 2012 (21), 2011 (20), 2010 (9), 2009 (21), 2008 (18), 2007 (16), 2006 (3), 2005 (5), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (2), 2001 (4), 1999 (6), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (2), 1995 (3), 1994 (4), 1993 (5), 1992 (3), 1991 (2), 1990 (3), 1989 (1), 1988 (3), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1982 (2), 1981 (1), 1979 (1), 1975 (2), 1970 (1), 1968 (1)

Book of the Year 12

WorkYear
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin Francis2013
All Made Up by Janice Galloway2012
Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay2011
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald Worster2010
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman2009
A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan2008
The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn2007
The People's Act of Love by James Meek2006
The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie2005
Joseph Knight by James Robertson2004
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple2003
Hotel World by Ali Smith2002

Winner 31

WorkCategoryYear
Close Your Eyes by Ewan MorrisonFiction2013
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry HudsonFirst Book2013
Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins by Gavin FrancisNonfiction2013
Small World by Richard PricePoetry2013
There But For The by Ali SmithFiction2012
Let Not the Waves of the Sea by Simon StephensonFirst Book2012
All Made Up by Janice GallowayNonfiction2012
Aibisidh by Angus Peter CampbellPoetry2012
Lyrics Alley by Leila AboulelaFiction2011
The Death of Lomond Friel by Sue PeeblesFirst Book2011
Red Dust Road by Jackie KayNonfiction2011
The Breakfast Room by Stewart ConnPoetry2011
Strip the Willow by John AberdeinFiction2010
Eating Pomegranates: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters, and the BRCA Gene by Sarah GabrielFirst Book2010
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir by Donald WorsterNonfiction2010
Outside the Narrative: Poems 1965–2009 by Tom LeonardPoetry2010
Kieron Smith, Boy by James KelmanFiction2009
Moonshine in the Morning by Andrea McNicollFirst Book2009
This Is Not About Me by Janice GallowayNonfiction2009
Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness by Tom PowPoetry2009
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali SmithFiction2008
Morocco Rococo by Jane McKieFirst Book2008
The Wild Places by Robert MacfarlaneNonfiction2008
A Book of Lives by Edwin MorganPoetry2008
The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty GunnFiction2007
George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie FergussonFirst Book2007
A Lie About My Father: A Memoir by John BurnsideNonfiction2007
Swithering by Robin RobertsonPoetry2007
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. RowlingChildren's Book2001
Hotel World by Ali SmithFiction2001
The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan by Kathleen JamieNonfiction2001

Shortlist 96

WorkCategoryYear
The Missing Shade Of Blue by Jennie ErdalFiction2013
The Heart Broke In by James MeekFiction2013
Artful by Ali SmithFiction2013
So It Is by Liam Murray BellFirst Book2013
The Panopticon by Jenni FaganFirst Book2013
The Weight of a Human Heart: Stories by Ryan O'NeillFirst Book2013
Ramshackle by Elizabeth ReederFirst Book2013
Snake Ropes by Jess RichardsFirst Book2013
Sightlines by Kathleen JamieNonfiction2013
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert MacfarlaneNonfiction2013
Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara MaitlandNonfiction2013
Notes for Lighting a Fire by Gerry CambridgePoetry2013
The Overhaul by Kathleen JamiePoetry2013
Rooster by Gerry McGrathPoetry2013
Pack Men by Alan BissettFiction2012
Gillespie and I by Jane HarrisFiction2012
Submergence by J. M. LedgardFiction2012
Ever Fallen in Love by Zoë StrachanFiction2012
Island of Wings by Karin AltenbergFirst Book2012
Sidereal by Rachael BoastFirst Book2012
The Echo Chamber by Luke WilliamsFirst Book2012
Wasted In Love by Allan WilsonFirst Book2012
The Bicycle Book by Bella BathurstNonfiction2012
The Silent Weaver: The Extraordinary Life and Work of Angus MacPhee by Roger HutchinsonNonfiction2012
Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story by Kapka KassabovaNonfiction2012
The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma RothschildNonfiction2012
Black Cat Bone by John BurnsidePoetry2012
The Bees by Carol Ann DuffyPoetry2012
As Though We Were Flying by Andrew GreigPoetry2012
Long Cuts by Jo MorganPoetry2012
Da Happie Laand by Robert Alan JamiesonFiction2011
The Summer of the Bear by Bella PollenFiction2011
And the Land Lay Still by James RobertsonFiction2011
I Love You, Goodbye by Cynthia RogersonFiction2011
The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan WarnerFiction2011
The History of Orkney Literature by Simon HallFirst Book2011
Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel HewittFirst Book2011
Down from the Dance: Poems by Maggie RabatskiFirst Book2011
At the Loch of the Green Corrie by Andrew GreigNonfiction2011
Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation by Stuart KellyNonfiction2011
Between the Sheets: Nine 20th Century Women Writers and Their Famous Literary Partnerships by Lesley McDowellNonfiction2011
Beyond the Last Dragon: A life of Edwin Morgan by James McGonigalNonfiction2011
What They Say About You by Eddie GibbonsPoetry2011
A Light Song of Light by Kei MillerPoetry2011
The Wrecking Light by Robin RobertsonPoetry2011
The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside2010
The Bard: Robert Burns, A Biography by Robert Crawford2010
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple2010
What Becomes by A. L. Kennedy2010
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate AtkinsonFiction2009
Gate of Air by James BuchanFiction2009
The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice ColinFiction2009
Sputnik Caledonia by Andrew CrumeyFiction2009
The Red Book by Meaghan DelahuntFiction2009
The Same Earth by Kei MillerFiction2009
A Proper Education for Girls by E. S. ThomsonFirst Book2009
Meeting the Jet Man by David KnowlesFirst Book2009
The Wave Singer by Greg MichaelsonFirst Book2009
The Good Mayor by Andrew NicollFirst Book2009
Antigona and Me by Kate ClanchyNonfiction2009
Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography by Rodge GlassNonfiction2009
A Book of Silence by Sara MaitlandNonfiction2009
Full Volume by Robert CrawfordPoetry2009
Nigh-No-Place by Jen HadfieldPoetry2009
Arioflotga by Frank KuppnerPoetry2009
The Devil's Footprints by John BurnsideFiction2008
Old Men in Love by Alasdair GrayFiction2008
Day by A. L. KennedyFiction2008
Shadow Behind the Sun by Remzija SherifiFirst Book2008
The Brainstorm by Jenny TurnerFirst Book2008
Scotland's Books: The Penguin History of Scottish Literature by Robert CrawfordNonfiction2008
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew MarrNonfiction2008
Hamish Henderson - A Biography Volume 1: The Making of the Poet (1919-1953) by Timothy NeatNonfiction2008
Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott by David RobbNonfiction2008
Gift Songs (Cape Poetry) by John BurnsidePoetry2008
Window for a Small Blue Child by Gerrie FellowsPoetry2008
Greenfields by Richard PricePoetry2008
Bodywork by Dilys RosePoetry2008
One Good Turn by Kate AtkinsonFiction2007
Wish I Was Here by Jackie KayFiction2007
Matters of Life and Death by Bernard MacLavertyFiction2007
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James RobertsonFiction2007
White Ghost Girls by Alice GreenwayFirst Book2007
The Observations by Jane HarrisFirst Book2007
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef PenneyFirst Book2007
Calum's Road by Roger HutchinsonNonfiction2007
The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory StewartNonfiction2007
Punk with Dulcimer by Anna CrowePoetry2007
Bad Shaman Blues by W. N. HerbertPoetry2007
Findings by Kathleen Jamie2006
The Accidental by Ali Smith2006
Space Pirates: A Map-Reading Adventure by Scoular Anderson2005
Skarrs by Catherine Forde2005
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman2005
The Places In Between by Rory Stewart2005
Clara by Janice Galloway2002

No Stage 48

WorkYear
The Cloud Machinery by Christopher Whyte2001
Samarkand by Kate Clanchy1999
Spirit Machines (Cape Poetry) by Robert Crawford1999
Scar Culture by Toni Davidson1999
Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy1999
The Eyes (Faber Poetry) by Don Paterson1999
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling1999
The Laurelude by W. N. Herbert1998
The Warlock of Strathearn by Christopher Whyte1998
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple1997
God's Gift to Women by Don Paterson1997
Slattern by Kate Clanchy1996
Cabaret McGonagall by W. N. Herbert1996
Pig by Andrew Cowan1995
So I Am Glad by A. L. Kennedy1995
Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith1995
Forked Tongue by W. N. Herbert1994
Now That You're Back by A. L. Kennedy1994
Dunedin by Shena Mackay1994
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh1994
Identifying Poets: Self and Territory in Twentieth-Century Poetry by Robert Crawford1993
Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy1993
Looking for the Possible Dance by A. L. Kennedy1993
Nil Nil by Don Paterson1993
Red Tides by Dilys Rose1993
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Stewart Conn1992
The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay1992
In between Talking about the Football by Gordon Legge1992
Common Knowledge by John Burnside1991
Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains by A. L. Kennedy1991
In Xanadu: A Quest by William Dalrymple1990
The Other Country by Carol Ann Duffy1990
The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway1990
A Little Stranger by Candia McWilliam1989
The Hoop by John Burnside1988
The Way We Live by Kathleen Jamie1988
A Case Of Knives by Candia McWilliam1988
Standing Female Nude by Carol Ann Duffy1986
Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars by Ron Butlin1985
The Tilting Room by Ron Butlin1984
Black Spiders by Kathleen Jamie1982
The Death of Men by Allan Massie1982
Lanark by Alasdair Gray1981
Under the Ice by Stewart Conn1979
Love or Nothing by Douglas Dunn1975
Docherty by William McIlvanney1975
Terry Street by Douglas Dunn1970
A Gift from Nessus by William McIlvanney1968

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