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List of Scottish novelists

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List of Scottish novelists is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish novelists. This list includes novelists of all genres, writing in English, Scots, Gaelic or any other language. Novelists writing in the Scottish tradition are part of the development of the novel in Scotland.

Contents

This is a subsidiary list to the List of Scottish writers.

A

  • Gilbert Adair
  • Mea Allan
  • Lin Anderson

    • D

  • Anne Donovan
  • Colin Douglas (born 1945), pseudonym of Colin Thomas Currie; Edinburgh medical novels with many thinly disguised real characters
  • O. Douglas (1877–1948), pen name of Anna Masterton Buchan
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), creator of the Great Detective, discoverer of The Lost World, believer in fairies
  • Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001)
  • Niall Duthie (born 1947), novelist

    • F

  • Michel Faber
  • Jenni Fagan
  • Craig Ferguson
  • Aminatta Forna

    • G

  • Janice Galloway
  • Richard Gordon, science fiction
  • Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
  • Kenneth Grahame
  • Alasdair Gray, Lanark
  • Andrew Greig
  • Neil Gunn, The Silver Darlings

    • K

  • Jackie Kay
  • James Kelman
  • James Kennaway (1928–1968)
  • A.L. Kennedy
  • Philip Kerr
  • Jessie Kesson
  • William King

    • L

  • Ross Laidlaw
  • David Lindsay
  • Eric Linklater

    • O

  • Maggie O'Farrell
  • Andrew O'Hagan
  • Margaret Oliphant
  • Agnes Owens

    • P

  • Andrew Picken (1788–1833)

    • R

  • Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Ian Rankin (born 1960)
  • Michael Scott Rohan
  • J.K. Rowling
  • Archie Roy

    • T

  • Emma Tennant
  • Josephine Tey
  • Ismar Thiusen
  • Alice Thompson
  • Ruthven Todd
  • Nigel Tranter (1909–2000), Scottish historical novels, westerns, contemporary adventure, children's books, non-fiction (history, Scotland, Scottish architecture)
  • Alexander Trocchi

    • W

  • Alan Warner (born 1964)
  • William Watson (1931–2005)
  • Irvine Welsh (born 1958)
  • Louise Welsh (born 1965)
  • George Whyte-Melville (1821–1878)
  • David Wishart
  • David Wolstencroft (born 1969)

    • References

    List of Scottish novelists Wikipedia
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