Waterstone’s Guide to Scottish Books

Directory of Publishing in Scotland 1999 (8th edition)

Scottish Publishers Association

Edinburgh

1999

136 pp.

ISBN 0 9531482 0 3

£8.00

Keywords Publishing, Book trade, Scotland

Scotland is a literary country indeed, and much of that literature healthily contemporary. Whatever their sources or influences, many Scots are writing and publishing in the full range of categories (fiction, poetry, travel, history, etc.), and writing well. Their products are finding publishers, both north and south of the border, mainstream and “small presses”, and, most important of all, it seems that the public is buying (and presumably reading) them. The vitality implied in...