It's Sh**e Being Scottish - An Intro to Scottish Psyche

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Open the Door! (Canongate Classics)
1.  Open the Door! (Canongate Classics) by Catherine Carswell
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  "Overlooked victorian fiction"
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics)
2.  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson
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  "Intriguing perambulation around the sublime hinterland in 1773"
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Scotland: a New History
3.  Scotland: a New History by Michael Lynch
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  "Exhaustive and scholarly"
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
4.  Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
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  "Unexpected beauty"
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Trainspotting
5.  Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
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  "As good as the film, but different"
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Culloden
6.  Culloden by John Prebble
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  "Turning point"
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Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre
7.  Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre by John Prebble
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  "Makes the place even more haunting"
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Scot's Quair
8.  Scot's Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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  "Life in the North East"
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Grampian Quartet: "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain" (Canongate Classics)
9.  Grampian Quartet: "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain" (Canongate Classics) by Nan Shepherd
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  "Prelude to Grassic Gibbon"
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Three Scottish Poets (Canongate Classics)
10.  Three Scottish Poets (Canongate Classics) by Norman MacCaig
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  "Captures the permanence and pace of geography"
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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
11.  The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World by Arthur Herman
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  "Sychophantic polemic - but interesting for the first half"
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Joan Eardley - Rsa
12.  Joan Eardley - Rsa by Cordelia Oliver
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  "Greatest modern Scottish painter"
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Kidnapped (Penguin Classics)
13.  Kidnapped (Penguin Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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  "Perfectly captures the dualistic nature of the Scottish psyche"
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Penguin Classics)
14.  The Heart of Mid-Lothian (Penguin Classics) by Walter Scott
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  "Inspired Dickens"
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The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library)
15.  The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (English Library) by Tobias Smollett
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  "Bad tempered , fictional compliment to Johnson and Boswell"
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"Morvern Callar": Script
16.  "Morvern Callar": Script by Liana Dognini
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  "Calm, paced imagery"
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