Scottish /lit/.

>>9950002
Lanark - Alaister Grey

The Wasp Factory
How Late It Was How Late
Swing Hammer Swing
Cain's Book (Scottish author but set in New York City)
Young Adam

following for interest

also Jekyll and Hyde obvs

Trainspotting

>inb4 meme

>>9950002
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Journals
Smith's Wealth of Nations
Hume passim.

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ALEXANDER TROCCHI

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN...his fiction is good, particularly greenvoe.

I mean, I'm scottish and its difficult to think of great scottish writers....especially compared to ireland.

Read Waverley lads, it's great

>>9950362
Looking through my book collection

>James Kelman

often compared to welsh, because he writes regional dialects phonetically and concentrates on the seedy underside of city life (in this case glasgow). not so much if a poofter because he's from glasgow, not edinburgh.
Welsh is too derivative of too many writers (kelman, denis johnson, trocchi, louise ferdinand celine, burroughs, ballard, brett easton ellis, hubert selby jr etc)

>>9950436
welsh is a one-trick-pony, really.

I remember after glue he said he would never write anything else about 80's 90's leith again.......then found out he could write about fuck all else and released skagboys.

Ms-Dos cunt

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>>9950455

I think he's really done Scotland a disservice by defining ''Scottish contemporary literature'' as basically being cheap Burroughs rip-off but written with a Scottish accent and without any of the talent or intrigue Burroughs had

>>9950002
Poetry of James Clerk Maxwell. That guy was a smart guy.

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I had to read pic related in school and in retrospect it was actually breddy gud, weird how i never seemed to have caught on though

it's basically about a middle class teacher in who takes one of his poor students on holiday with him

>>9950491
i don't really see much Burroughs correlation apart from heroin abuse.


there is a sense of place and character caught very well in trainspotting. I grew up in leith from the early 90's to the ealy 2000's. the superficial characters like begbie and spud were captured fantastically well. I knew many people like them.....but thats about it.

Leith is completely gentrified now

>>9950002
I hear slab boys is good

1982 janine and poor things are also worth reading.

>>9950371
Quentin Durward, Kenilworth, The Heart of Midlothian all GOAT.
Curious that RLS is so underrepresented in this thread, as he was surely one of the greatest writers in English in the late 19th c. If youre Scottish read the short essay The Lantern Bearers immediately.
And where's fucking Thomas Carlyle? I'll list a title: The French Revolution.
Carlyle is what Emerson, Dickens, and Nietzsche hold in common.

>>9950002
OP Here. Spent a few hours fucking around on Wikipedia, (a step which in hindsight I should've taken initially). Came up with the following list. (Not yet gotten to 19th Century)

Early History/Mythology:
Book of Aneirin
Annales Cambriae
Fenian Cycle
Mythological Cycle
Historical Cycle
Ulster Cycle
Adomnan - Life of Columba

Medieval Romances:
John Barber - The Brus
Blind Harry - The Wallace
James I - The King's Quair

Enlightenment Era Poetry:
Alan Ramsay - The Ever Green
Alan Ramsay - Tea-Table Miscellany
James Macpherson - Ossian Cycle
Works of Rabbie Burns
Works of Alexander Wilson
Works of Robert Tannahill

Theatre (15th-17th Centuries):
The Three Estaitis
Archibald Pitcairn - The Assembly
Catherine Trotter - Fatal Friendship
Catherine Trotter - Love at a Loss
David Crawford - Courtship A-la-Mode
David Crawford - Love at First Sight
Newburgh Hamilton - The Petticoat-Ploter
Newburgh Hamilton - The Doating Lovers
James Thompson - Sophonisba
James Thompson - Agamemnon
James Thompson - Tancrid and Sigismuda
David Mallet - Eurydice
Masque of Alfred (Opera)
Works of Johanna Bailie

18th century Novels:
Tobias Smollett - The Adventures of Roderick Random
Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker
Henry Mackenzie - The Man of Feeling
John Moore - Zeluco
Jean Marishall - Miss Fanny Renton

>>9950524
>Leith is completely gentrified now
It wasn't much better when I lived there but that was ages ago. People setting your shit on fire for fun was pretty shite. I don't see how it could be much worse now.

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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg

Seriously so good. I thought the atmosphere was similar to that of The Witch (2015).

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Oor Wullie

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Great stuff lads, not op but i screenshot Ted this. Thanks again.

>>9950002

Cute trap

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All Irishmen.

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>>9952188
>mfw americans can't understand a word this says

>>9952188
trainspotting: origins

this confirms my suspicion that the people making charts haven't even read the books they're recommending.

Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVk4nh-hBKY

>>9952506
Nae a trap, m8.
https://www.instagram.com/madeleinebaldacchino/?hl=en