MLA 2008 San Francisco

This page provides a list of all the Scottish titles which were showcased at the MLA 2008 in San Francisco. Click on the publisher's name in purple for more information and ordering details. If you have any questions about the titles listed on this page, please contact gwen @ scottishwriting.org.uk .

You can also see the 2008 MLA Scottish Sessions.

Individual Scottish titles

We were delighted this year to bring a particularly exciting and varied selection of individual titles contributed to the Scottish Writing Exhibition by various publishers and authors. As with all our titles, they were chosen especially for the MLA convention. You can browse the summary below and visit the Individual Scottish Titles page for details. Titles are listed alphabetically by title.

• Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns by Ferenc Morton Szasz (Southern Illinois University Press)
• Alasdair Gray – A Secretary's Biography by Rodge Glass (Bloomsbury)
• The Black Watch by Gregory Burke (Faber)
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Editions Ltd)
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories (Wordsworth Editions Ltd)
• Edwin Muir: Selected Poems ed. Mick Imlah (Faber)
• The Devil's Footprints by John Burnside (Nan A. Talese)
• The Fanatic by James Robertson (Harper Collins)
• Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway (Dalkey Archive Press)
• The Four Adventures of Richard Hannay (David R. Godine)
• The Incredible Adam Spark by Alan Bissett (Headline Review)
• Joseph Knight by James Robertson (Harper Collins)
• The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah (Faber)
• Mitchison's Ghosts: The Supernatural in Naomi Mitchison's Fiction by Moira Burgess (humming earth)
• Old Men in Love by Alasdair Gray (Bloomsbury)
• The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse eds. Robert Crawford and Mick Imhlah (Penguin)
• Poems and Songs and Correspondence of Robert Tannahill with Life and Notes by David Semple (the grimsay press)
• Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (Dalkey Archive Press)
• Scotland and America: A Study of Cultural Relations, 1750-1835 by Andrew Hook (humming earth)
• Scotticisms by Marina Dossena (John Donald/Birlinn)
• Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan ed. Gordon Jarvie (Penguin)
• Swithering by Robin Robertson (Picador)
• The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Penguin)
• The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway (Dalkey Archive Press)

Argyll Publishing

The Wave Singer (Michaelson)
The Thistle and the Crescent (Maan)
Yesterday Was Summer (Pallister & McGilp)
Selected Stories by Brian McCabe
Amande's Bed (Aberdein)
Scots Gaelic: An Introduction (McLennan)
Into A Room: William Soutar
Imagine a City: Glasgow in Fiction (ed. Burgess)
Across the Water (McGonigal, O'Rourke & Whyte)
Handful of Rogues (MacMillan)
Tobermory Tales (Macintyre)
Born Up a Close (Savage) NEW EDITION, intr. James Kelman
Taking You Home (Thomson, Smith, Mitchell)
The Scottish Review of Books

Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

Scottish People's Theatre: Plays by Glasgow Unity Writers (ed. Findlay)
Clan-Albin: A National Tale, Christian Isobel Johnstone (ed. Monnickendam)
Voices From Their Ain Countrie: The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob (ed. Gordon)
Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems (ed. Williams)
The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad ed. McMillan

Back Bay Books

A selection of titles by Denise Mina:

Exile
Resolution
Garnethill
Deception
The Dead Hour
Field of Blood
Slip of the Knife

Birlinn & Polygon Books

Boyracers (Bissett)
Robert Fergusson: Selected Poems (Fergusson)
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (MacDiarmid)
The Colour of Black and White (Lochhead)
Dream State (O'Rourke)
Dàin Do Eimhir agus Dain Eile | Poems to Eimhir and Other Poems (MacLean)
Duanaire Na Sracaire | Song Book of the Pillagers (eds. Bateman & McLeod)
Hymn to a Young Demon (MacNeacail)
The House with the Green Shutters (Buchan)
Early in Orcadia (Mitchison)
Butcher's Broom (Gunn)
Some Kind of Grace (Jenkins)
Agnes Owens: the complete short stories (Owens)
Damage Land: new Scottish gothic fiction (ed. Bissett)
Scottish Traditional Tales (eds. Bruford and MacDonald)
The Burning Mirror (Saadi)

Black and White | Itchy-Coo Books

The Awakening of George Darroch (Jenkins)
Another Time Another Place (Kesson)
The Vital Spark (Munro)
Psychoraag (Saadi)

The Sleekit Mr Tod by Roald Dahl (transl. Robertson)
Animal ABC (Rennie)
The Smoky Smirr o Rain: A Scots Anthology (Fitt & Robertson)
Winnie-the-Pooh in Scots by A.A. Milne (transl. Robertson)
Kidnappit (transl. Fitt & Robertson)

Bloodaxe Books

The Lamplighter (Kay)
Darling (Kay)
Nigh-No-Place (Hadfield)

Canongate Books

The Bullet Trick (Welsh)
Lanark: A Life in Four Books (Gray)
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Gray)
The People's Act of Love (Meek)
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Meek)
Glasgow Zen (Spence)
Oases (Reid)

Carcanet Press

Edwin Morgan: New Collected Poems
Edwin Morgan: A Book of Lives
Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poems
Iain Crichton Smith: Collected Poems
Robert Henryson: Selected Poems
All the Poems (Spark)
Greenfields (Price)
Border Ballads (Reed)
Greenfields (Price)
In My Father's House (Kinloch)
Un Tour d'Ecosse (Kinloch)
Selected Poems of Mark Akenside, James Macpherson & Edward Young

Edinburgh University Press

Waverley (Scott, ed. Garside)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Hogg, eds. Garside & Campbell)
James Hogg: A life (Hughes)
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (Schoene)
Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic (Lyall)
Walter Scott and Modernity (Lincoln)
Concise Scots Dictionary (Scottish Language Dictionaries)

Gaelic Books Council

Saoghal nan Uibhistean | The World of the Uists (Moireasdan)
An t-Ubhal Seunta (Beith)
Leabhar-latha Caoimhe (Bhrolcháin)
An t-Òran Sėth-bhuan (MacLeòid)
Dìomhanas (MacLeòid)
An Latha as Fhaide (Mac an t-Saoir)

Kennedy and Boyd

The Camomile (Carswell)
Scottish Writers Talking 4 (Murray)
Islanders (Elphinstone)
The City of Dreadful Night (Thomson)
The Little Minister (Barrie)
Beside the Bonnie Brier-Bush (Maclaren)
The Days of Auld Langsyne (Maclaren)
The Ladies Lindores 1 (Oliphant)
The Stickit Minister (Crockett)
Tales of My Own Country (Jacob)

Luath Press

My Epileptic Lurcher (Dillon)
Luath Burns Companion (Cairney)
Dilys Rose: Selected Stories (Rose)
Parallel Worlds (deLuca)
Tartan and Turban (Fraser)
Burning Whins (Niven)
The English Spy (Smith)
Letters From the Great Wall (Daiches)
The Ultimate Burns Supper Book (McGinn)
Out of the Mists (Barrington)
Brainheart (MacNeil)
Writing in the Sand (Dunn)
100 Favourite Scottish Poems (ed. Conn)
Braveheart: From Hollywood to Holyrood (Anderson)

Rodopi

Scotland in Theory: Reflections on Culture & Literature (eds. Bell & Miller)
Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (eds. Carruthers, Goldie & Renfrew)
Extremely Common Eloquence: Constructing Scottish identity through narrative (Macaulay)
Alasdair Gray: The Fiction of Communion (Miller)
Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson (MacQueen)
Ethically Speaking: Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing (eds. McGonigal & Stirling)
Scotland in Europe (eds. Hubbard & Jack)
Kailyard and Scottish Literature (Nash)
"Joyous Sweit Imaginatioun" Essays on Scottish Literature in Honour of R.D.S. Jack (eds. Carpenter and Dunnigan)
Langage Cleir Illumynate: Scottish Poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630 (ed. Royan)

Saint Andrew Press

The Scots Confession (ed. Henderson, transl. Bulloch)
A Glasgow Bible (ed. Stuart)

Scottish Poetry Library

Intimate Expanses (eds. Cockburn and Marsack)
Light Off Water (eds. Pelegrí and Crowe)
All Points North (various contributors)
Gaelic Sampler (ed. Whyte)
Scotlands: Poet and the Nation (eds. Gifford and Riach)
The Battle of Bannockburn (ed. Morgan)
The Thing That Mattered Most: Scottish Poems for Children (various contributors)

Scottish Text Society

The Poems of Walter Kennedy (ed. Meier)
The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane (ed. Hanna)
The Chepman and Myllar Prints (ed. Mapstone)

Make sure to visit , an excellent resource on all Scottish publications, brought to you by Publishing Scotland.

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