Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land where the short
story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert
Louis Stevenson Eric Linklater and Dorothy K. Haynes side-splittingly funny stories from
Alasdair Gray and Irvine Welsh a stylish offering from urban realist William McIlvanney. Iain
Crichton Smith evokes the Gaelic-speaking highlands George Mackay-Brown the Orkney islands
Andrew O'Hagan working-class Glasgow while Leila Aboulela originally from Sudan ponders the
relations between colonizers and colonized from her home in Aberdeen. Though there is no one
'Scottishness' that binds the authors together writes editor Gerard Carruthers each has a
Scottish footprint or accent. And perhaps more importantly all are masters of their form.
