In this collection of 28 stories you will find Scots in a great variety depicting life, and a great variety of life depicted in Scots.
From the traditional story-telling of Stanley Robertson, to the unflinching urban brutality of Irvine Welsh's A Soft Touch; from the fine portraits of rural life by David Toulmin and Sheena Blackhall to the fierce urgency of Matthew Fitt's Stervin or Janet Paisley's Vices; from Billy Kay's moving reconstruction of a 1920s mining disaster to the surreal humour of Brent Hodgson's interview with King Lear - Scots is here in all its forms, in dialects ranging from Shetland to the Borders and from Ayrshire to Leith.
In this collection of 28 stories you will find Scots in a great variety depicting life, and a great variety of life depicted in Scots.
From the traditional story-telling of Stanley Robertson, to the unflinching urban brutality of Irvine Welsh's A Soft Touch; from the fine portraits of rural life by David Toulmin and Sheena Blackhall to the fierce urgency of Matthew Fitt's Stervin or Janet Paisley's Vices; from Billy Kay's moving reconstruction of a 1920s mining disaster to the surreal humour of Brent Hodgson's interview with King Lear - Scots is here in all its forms, in dialects ranging from Shetland to the Borders and from Ayrshire to Leith.