Scottish novelists (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 135. Chapters: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Iain Banks, Alexander Trocchi, Josephine Tey, Irvine Welsh, J. M. Barrie, George MacDonald, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Andrew Lang, Nigel Tranter, Kenneth Grahame, A. J. Cronin, Craig Ferguson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Don Boyd, Annie Shepherd Swan, Peter May, John Davidson, Ian Rankin, Naomi Mitchison, Dorothy Dunnett, Alexander McCall Smith, Stuart MacBride, Muriel Spark, Compton Mackenzie, James Hogg, Janice Hally, Michel Faber, Alasdair Gray, Bruce Marshall, George Mackay Brown, Christopher Brookmyre, Tobias Smollett, Edwin Muir, John Galt, Graham McNeill, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Gavin Esler, Neil M. Gunn, Jack House, William Boyd, James Campbell Reddie, James Kelman, Allan Massie, Muriel Gray, Richard Gordon, Quintin Jardine, Alan Sharp, Mona Caird, Mary Brunton, Glenn Chandler, Thomas Dick Lauder, Catherine Carswell, Rosaline Masson, John Hay Beith, James Robertson, Ali Smith, Alan Bissett, Iain Crichton Smith, Jackie Kay, Jane Harris, Adam Fergusson, Lucy Bethia Walford, Robert Williams Buchanan, A. L. Kennedy, Carol Anne Davis, Hugo Charteris, John Henry Mackay, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Marion Chesney, Henry Mackenzie, David Walker, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Denise Mina, Hugh MacColl, Susan Pleydell, William McIlvanney, Ron McMillan, George MacBeth, Sophie Cooke, D. E. Stevenson, Jane Duncan, Neil Paterson, Jane Findlater, Emma Maree Urquhart, Tom Morton, Neil Munro, Eric Linklater, Janice Galloway, James Kennaway, George Douglas Brown, Emily Gerard, O. Douglas, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, George Makgill, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, List of Scottish novelists, Jane Porter, Stuart Hood, Haldane Burgess, Candia McWilliam, Martin Millar, Angus Peter Campbell, Storer Clouston, Margaret Elphinstone, Ronald Frame, Dominic Cooper, Archie Hind, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Shena Mackay, John Joy Bell, Peter Kerr, Bernard MacLaverty, William Watson, Grace Monroe, Margaret Moyes Black, Ruth Thomas, Fionn MacColla, Archie Roy, Chris Lynch, Luke Sutherland, Laura Marney, Violet Jacob, David Wishart, Agnes Owens, Thomas Nicoll Hepburn, Colin Douglas, Bill Napier, John Burke, George Whyte-Melville, Christopher Whyte, Alan Warner, Mollie Hunter, Helen MacInnes, Sheila Stuart, Jessie Kesson, Robert Alan Jamieson, Elspeth Barker, Andrew Crumey, Nan Shepherd, Cliff Hanley, Helen Douglas Irvine, George Friel, Laura Hird, Jeff Torrington, Ross Leckie, David Wolstencroft, Cezaro Rossetti, Grace Kennedy, J. M. Ledgard, Dilys Rose, Ellen Galford, Margaret Moncrieff, Reg McKay, Andrew Picken, Stuart MacGregor, Michael Scott, Andrew Drummond, Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier, Leitch Ritchie, Mary Findlater, Robert Low, Chapman Mortimer, Donna Moore, Niall Duthie, John Neil Munro, John MacDougall Hay. Excerpt: Connection Timeout John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 - 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief career in law, Buchan simultaneously began writing and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa, and eventually wrote propaganda for the British war effort in First World War. Once back in civilian life, Buchan was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but spent most of his ti...