Scottish Top Authors share their favourite reads…

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Mairiuna, I just stumbled upon an article in the Scotsman online magazine that compiles a list of top Scottish authors’ favourite books for the year 2012.

In all, 44 authors contributed to this project. Wow… Ain’t it exciting to find out what our best authors reads are?

So happy to find on the list Christopher Brookmyre,  Alistair Moffat,  Alexander McCall Smith and Ian Rankin, to name just these few.  🙂

If the journey of discovering these books voted as their favourite reads is something that thrills you, go get your favorite beverage, sit down in your most comfortable chair and let’s discover those titles together.

Look at the colourful mosaic I’ve just created with the book covers! I shuffled the images around. Now, what about a little game…

Try to guess which books have been chosen by the respective authors……. 😉

Hard?

You bet!

So here goes…

Ian Rankin 

Hawthorn and Child – Keith Ridgway – Edition Granta/Portobello Omes
Gone Girl  – Gillian Flynn- Edition Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Grandville: Bête Noire – Bryan Talbot – Edition Jonathan Cape

Alexander McCall Smith

The Magicians of Edinburgh – Ron Butlin – Editions Polygon
What Money Can’t Buy – Michael Sandel – Editions Allen Lane
Britain’s Last Frontier – Alistair Moffat – Editions Birlinn
SJ Peploe – Guy Peploe – Editions Lund Humphries

Christopher Brookmyre 

What Dies in Summer – Tom Wright – Editions Canongate
The End of the Wasp Season – Denise Mina – Editions Orion
The Good, The Bad And The Multiplex – Mark Kermode – Editions Arrow

Alistair Moffat 

Aibisidh – Angus Peter Campbell – Editions Polygon
Last Man Standing – Jack Straw – Editions Macmillan
Back From the Brink – Alistair Darling
In Another World: Among Europe’s Dying Villages – Tom Pow – Editions Polygon

John Burnside

Once You Break A Knuckle – DW Wilson – Editions Bloomsbury
Light Lifting – Alexander MacLeod – Editions Jonathan Cape
The Yellow Birds – Kevin Power – Editions Sceptre
Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere – Paul Mason – Editions Verso
The Revenge of History – Seumas Milne – Editions Verso
Love and Struggle – David Gilbert – Editions PM Press

Told you it would be a good ride. 😉

Now let’s hop over to Amazon¸and add some of these titles on our wishlist.

Stay tuned for the next five authors. Coming up soon 😉

Enjoy!

Janice