Edited by Gerard Carruthers

Preface by Gerard Carruthers

Walter Scott (1771–1832), “The Two Drovers”
John Galt (1739–1839), “The Gudewife”
James Hogg (1770–1835), “The Cameronian Preacher’s Tale”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94), “Thrawn Janet”
Margaret Oliphant (1828–97), “The Open Door”
John Buchan (1875–1940), “The Outgoing of the Tide”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) , “J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement”
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901–35), “Smeddum”
Eric Linklater (1899–1974), “Sealskin Trousers”
Muriel Spark (1918–2006), “The Portobello Road”
Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–87), “Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch …”
George Mackay Brown (1921–96), “The Drowned Rose”
Iain Crichton Smith (1928–98), “Murdo”
Alasdair Gray (1934–2019), “The Crank that Made the Revolution”
William McIlvanney (1936–2015), “At the Bar”
James Kelman (b. 1946), “Greyhound for Breakfast”
Bernard MacLaverty (b. 1942), “Walking the Dog”
Janice Galloway (b. 1955), “Blood”
Irvine Welsh (b. 1958), “The Granton Star Cause”
Jackie Kay (b. 1961). “My Daughter the Fox”
James Robertson (b. 1958), “Old Mortality”
A. L. Kennedy (b. 1965), “Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains”
Leila Aboulela (b. 1964). “The Museum”
Ali Smith (b. 1962), “Fidelio and Bess”
Andrew O'Hagan (b. 1968), “Keepsakes”