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  2. Category:Scottish historical novels - Wikipedia

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  3. Novel in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    By the 1770s about thirty novels were being printed in Britain and Ireland every year and there is plentiful evidence that they were being read, particularly by women and students in Scotland. Scotland and Scottish authors made a modest contribution to this early development. About forty full length prose books were printed in Scotland before 1800.

  4. Category:Novels set in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Macbeth (Nesbø novel) Madeline, A Tale; Magnus Merriman; The Man from the Clouds; The Man from the Sea (novel) The Man Who Grew Tomatoes; The Master of Ballantrae; The Master of Stair; Mathilda (novella) Midwinter (novel) Miracle at St. Andrews; The Missing and the Dead; My Bones Will Keep; My Father Sleeps

  5. Rob Roy (novel) - Wikipedia

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    John Ballantyne, Scott's literary agent, drew up a contract for Rob Roy on 5 May 1817 with Archibald Constable and Longman who had published the first three Waverley novels, the author having lost confidence in the publishers of his most recent fictional work Tales of my Landlord, John Murray and William Blackwood, who had turned out to be insufficiently committed to that project.

  6. Tales of a Grandfather - Wikipedia

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    The books were published between 1828 and 1830 by A & C Black. In the 19th century, the study of Scottish history focused mainly on cultural traditions and therefore, in Scott’s books, while the timeline of events is accurate, many anecdotes are either folk stories or inventions. [1]

  7. Nigel Tranter - Wikipedia

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    Nigel Tranter OBE (23 November 1909 – 9 January 2000) was a writer of a wide range of books on history and architecture, both fiction and non-fiction. He was best-known for his popular and well-researched historical novels, covering centuries of Scottish history.

  8. The Guardian's 100 Best Novels Written in English - Wikipedia

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    The Guardian asked readers a fortnight after the conclusion of McCrum's list to name the novels that they wish had been on the list. The book with the highest number of votes was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the second Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, and the third Toni Morrison's Beloved.

  9. Scottish literature - Wikipedia

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    Book of Deer, folio 5r, containing the text of the Gospel of Matthew from 1:18 through 1:21. Beginning in the later eighth century, Viking raids and invasions may have forced a merger of the Gaelic and Pictish crowns that culminated in the rise of Cínaed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpin) in the 840s, which brought to power the House of Alpin and the creation of the Kingdom of Alba. [10]