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.

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

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1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 G
6 K
7 Mac/Mc
8 M
9 O
10 R
11 S
12 T
13 W
14 See also

[edit] A

Lin Anderson

[edit] B

Iain Banks aka Iain M. Banks, (born 1954) writes mainstream novels under the first name, science fiction novels under the second.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), author of Peter Pan among others.
Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), Beside the Ocean of Time
Mary Brunton (1778-1818)
John Buchan (1875-1940), The Thirty-nine Steps

[edit] C

Keith Charters (born 1965)
Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998)
Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914)
A. J. Cronin (1896–1981)
Andrew Crumey (born 1961)

[edit] D

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

[edit] G

[edit] K

James Kelman

[edit] Mac/Mc

George MacBeth (1932-1992)
George MacDonald (1824-1905), Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith
William McIlvanney (born 1936)
Helen Clark MacInnes (1907-1985), suspense novels
Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Whisky Galore!
Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), The Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare
Ken MacLeod, (born 1954), science fiction

[edit] M

[edit] O

Agnes Owens

[edit] R

Ian Rankin

[edit] S

Andrew Murray Scott (born 1955), novelist[1]
Michael Scott (1789-1835)
Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), innovator of the historical novel
Alan Sharp (born 1934)
Nan Shepherd (1893-1981)
Ali Smith (born 1962)
Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998), Consider the Lilies
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), The Adventures of Roderick Random, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
D. E. Stevenson (1892-1973)
Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Treasure Island etc
Luke Sutherland (born 1971)

[edit] T

Nigel Tranter, (1909–2000), Scottish historical novels, westerns, contemporary adventure, children's books, non-fiction (history, Scotland, Scottish architecture).