MLA 2011 Los Angeles

This page provides a list of all the Scottish titles that ASLS brought to the MLA 2011 in Los Angeles. 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

This page lists our titles by publisher; you can also see a pdf printable version of our Catalogue organised by author.

Find out about the MLA 2011 Scottish sessions.

Individual Scottish titles

And The Land Lay Still by James Robertson (Harper Collins)
A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry by Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet H Williams (Boydell and Brewer)
The Drum of Stone by Humberto Ak'Abal (Kettillonia)
Eccentric Scotland, Three Victorian Poets: James Thomson ('B.V'), John Davidson and James Young Geddes by Gioia Angeletti (Bologna: CLUEB, 2004)
The Fanatic by James Robertson (Harper Collins)
Joan Ure: 'Come una ragazzina', 'Riprenditi la tua costola!', intr. Gioia Angeletti, transl. Gioia Angeletti e Valentina Poggi (Rimini: Panozzo Editore)
The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity by Maureen Martin (SUNY Press)
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson (Harper Collins)

Argyll Publishing

The Ice and other stories (Steven)
Renewing Old Edinburgh (Johnson & Rosenburg)
Send for Granny Porage (Marshall)
Tartan Pimps (Miller & Edwards)
The Tears that Made the Clyde (Craig)
The Dead of Winter (Cooper)
Scotland the brief (Harvie)
Slogans Galore (McLennan)
An Allergic Reaction to National Anthems (McLaughlin)

Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott (ed. Crawford)
The Cottagers of Glenburnie by Elizabeth Hamilton (ed.Perkins)
Kirsteen by Margaret Oliphant (ed. Scriven)
Sir David Lyndsay: Selected Poems (ed. Williams)
Modernism and Nationalism (Palmer McCulloch)
The Poems of William Dunbar (ed. Bawcutt)
The Scotswoman at Home and Abroad: Non-Fiction Writing 1700–1900 (ed. McMillan)

Birlinn & Polygon Books

A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde (MacNeil)
Weir of Hermiston/Master of Ballantrae (Stevenson)
Song Book of the Pillagers (Bateman and MacLeod)
Nova Scotia: An Anthology of Scottish Speculative Fiction (eds. Wilson and Williamson)
William Dunbar,'The Nobill Poyet' (Mapstone)
Dreaming Frankenstein (Lochhead)
Complete Novellas (Owens)
Busconductor Hines (Kelman)
A Scots Quair (Gibbon)
Magnus (Brown)
Best Laid Schemes (Crawford and Maclachlan)
Outside In (Reid)
Strip the Willow (Aberdein)
Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica (Henderson)
The Poems of Norman MacCaig (MacCaig)

Black and White | Itchy-Coo Books

John Splendid (Neil Munro)
Gilean the Dreamer (Neil Munro)
Scenes & Legends (Hugh Miller)
Another Time, Another Place (Kesson)
Glasgow Fairytale (McIver)

The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk by A.A. Milne (transl. Robertson)
Precious and the Puggies (McCall Smith, transl. Robertson)
A Moose in the Hoose: A Scots Counting Book (Fitt & Robertson)
Katie's Year: Aw the Months for Wee Folk (Robertson)
The Smoky Smirr o Rain: A Scots Anthology (Robertson & Fitt)

Bloodaxe Books

Identity Parade (anthology) (ed. Lumsden)
Perfect Blue (MacPhee)

Bloomsbury

Red, Cherry Red (Kay)

Canongate Books

The Cutting Room (Welsh)
Naming the Bones (Welsh)
Under the Skin (Faber)
The People's Act of Love (Meek)
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Meek)
The Gathering Night (Elphinstone)
Hy Brasil (Elphinstone)
A History Maker (Gray)
The Ends of Our Tethers (Gray)

Carcanet Press

Edwin Morgan: New Selected Poems
Edwin Morgan: Collected Poems
Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poems (eds. Riach & Grieve)
From Wood to Ridge (MacLean)
The Palace of Oblivion (Davidson)
Arioflotga (Kuppner)
Intimate Expanses (Marsack)
Country for Old Men and My Canadian Uncle (Crichton Smith)

Edinburgh University Press

The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. Fielding)
The Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman (ed. Hames)
Scottish Literature (ed. Carruthers)
Scottish Literature in English and Scots (eds. Gifford and Dunnigan)
The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. Lewis)
The Three Perils of Woman by James Hogg (eds. Hasler and Mack)
The Queen's Wake by James Hogg (ed. Mack)
Scotland: Global Cinema (Martin-Jones)

Faber and Faber

The Black Watch (Burke)
Selected Poems (Imlah)
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog and of his friend Marilyn Monroe (O'Hagan)
Be Near Me (O'Hagan)
20th Century Scottish Poetry (ed. Dunn)
Rain (Paterson)

Gaelic Books Council

Ruairidh Gruamach (Storey)
Can Gun Robh (ed. NicGillìosa)
Òrain Lizzie a' Ghlinne (Shutharlan)
Ìmpireachd (MacLeòid)

Jonathan Cape

The Stars in the Bright Sky (Warner)

Kennedy and Boyd

Four Books of Choice Old Scottish Ballads (Kirkpatrick Sharpe)
The South Side: Three Glasgow Novellas (Burgess)
The Big House (Mitchison)
The Standard Bearer (Crockett)
Mary Queen of Scots (Morrison)
Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers 1821-1845
Poets of Ayrshire from the Fourteenth Century till the Present Day with selections from their writings (1910) (ed. Macintosh)
John Home's Douglas: A Tragedy—with contemporary commentary
Scottish Literature's Debt to Italy (Jack)
Bagpipe Ballads and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of Neil Munro
The Road to the Never Land: A Reassessment of JM Barrie’s Dramatic Art (Jack)
Kennedy & Boyd Anthology of Nineteenth Century Scottish Literature (McCracken-Flesher)
An Altitude Within (MacGillivray)
Bho Chluaidh gu Calasraid—From the Clyde to Callander; Gaelic Songs, Poetry, Tales and Traditions of the Lennox and Menteith in Gaelic with English translations (Newton)
Literary Allusion in Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Coletes Blanco)
Love and a Sword (Douglas Brown)

Orbit (Little, Brown)

Surface Detail (Banks)
The Bridge (Banks)
Transition (Banks)
The Wasp Factory (Banks)
The Crow Road (Banks)
The Star Fraction (MacLeod)
The Night Sessions (MacLeod)
The Restoration Game (MacLeod)
Halting State (Stross)
Saturn’s Children (Stross)

Luath Press

Da Happie Laand (Jamieson)
From the Ganga to the Tay (Fraser)
The Shard Box (Niven)
Homecoming (Riach)
Archie and the North Wind (Campbell)
Between Ourselves
The Strange Case of RLS (Woodhead)
Tales of the North Coast (ed. Temperley)
On the Trail of Robert Service (Lockhart)
Frontier Scots (Calder)
As Others See us (various)

Oxford University Press

Penguin

The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. Poole)
Travels with a Donkey AND An Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. MacLachlan)
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. Sutherland)
Selected poems of Robert Louis Stevenson (ed. Calder)
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (ed. Womersley)
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Johnson & Boswell)
Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott (ed. Garside)
Waverley by Sir Walter Scott (ed. Hook)
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan (ed. Jarvie)
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (eds. Crawford and Imlah)
The Complete Fairy Tales (of Macdonald) (ed. Knoepflmacher)
Scotland's Books: The Penguin history of Scottish Literature (ed. Crawford)
Selected Poems of Robert Burns (ed. McGuirk)
Selected Poems of Byron (eds. Wolfson and Manning)
You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (Kelman)

Picador

The Tree House (Jamie)
Red Dust Road (Kay)
Trumpet (Kay)
The Wrecking Light (Robertson)
Love Poems (Duffy)
The World's Wife (Duffy)
Sputnik Caledonia (Crumey)

Rodopi – the SCROLL series (Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature)

NEW! Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment (Perkins)
NEW! The Scottish Romance Tradition c. 1375—c. 1550 (Mainer)
NEW! Myths and the Mythmaker: A Literary Account of J.M. Barrie's Formative Years (RDS Jack)
Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text (Stirling)
Disappearing Men: Gender Disorientation in Scottish Fiction 1979-1999 (Jones)
Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of Robert Henryson (MacQueen)
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)

Scottish Poetry Library

Intimate Expanses (eds. Cockburn and Marsack)
Light Off Water (eds. Pelegrí and Crowe)
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)
Addressing the Bard: Twelve contemporary poets respond to Robert Burns

Scottish Text Society

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

Two Ravens Press

The Falconer (Thompson)
Homecomings (Paterson)
Small Expectations (Murray)

Vintage

Day (Kennedy)
What becomes (Kennedy)
How Late it was, How late (Kelman)

Wordsworth Editions

The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Stevenson)
The Complete Richard Hannay Stories (Buchan)
Scottish Ghost Stories (selected Gray)
Collected Poems of Robert Burns (intr. McFarlan)
Hound of the Baskervilles (Doyle)
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other stories (Stevenson)
The Best of Sherlock Holmes (ed. Davies)
Rob Roy (Scott)
Ivanhoe (Scott)
Kidnapped & Catriona (Stevenson)
Treasure Island (Stevenson)
Peter Pan (Barrie)