Scotnotes are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and literary texts that are likely to be elements within literature courses. They are aimed at senior pupils in secondary schools and students in further education colleges and colleges of education. Each title in the series is written by a person who is not only an authority on the particular writer or text but also experienced in teaching at the relevant levels in schools or colleges.
For many years there has been a shortage of readily accessible critical notes for the general student of Scottish literature. Scotnotes has grown as a series to meet this need, and provides students with valuable aids to the understanding and appreciation of the key writers and major texts within the Scottish literary tradition.
Scotnotes are priced £6.95 each and are available from all good bookshops.
Series editors: Lorna Borrowman Smith and Ronald Renton
44. The Poetry and Drama of Allan Ramsay
by Craig Lamont and Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland
43. The Poetry and Drama of Jackie Kay
by Lorna Borrowman Smith
42. Rona Munro’s Bold Girls
by Gillian Sargent
41. Edwin Morgan’s Cyrano de Bergerac: a new verse translation
by John Corbett
40. The Gaelic Poetry of Derick Thomson
by Petra Johana Poncarová
39. Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor
by Eileen Dunlop
38. John Galt’s Annals of the Parish and The Provost
by Ian McGhee
37. Scottish War Poetry 1914-1945
by David Goldie & Roderick Watson
36. Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing
by Gillian Sargent
35. Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep
by John Hodgart
34. The Short Stories of George Mackay Brown
by Linden Bicket
33. Neil M. Gunn’s The Silver Darlings
by John Burns
32. Sue Glover’s Bondagers and The Straw Chair
by John Hodgart
31. Eric Linklater’s Private Angelo and The Dark of Summer
by Christopher Nicol
30. The Poetry of Sorley MacLean
by Emma Dymock
29. Directed by Bill Forsyth: Local Hero (1983)
by David Manderson & Alistair Scott
28. Alan Spence’s Its Colours They Are Fine and Way To Go
by John Burns
27. Anne Donovan’s Buddha Da
by Christopher Nicol
26. Sir David Lyndsay’s A Satire of the Three Estates
by John Corbett
25. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones: Rob Roy (1995)
by David Manderson
24. Ian Rankin’s Black & Blue
by Christopher Nicol
23. Neil Munro’s John Splendid and The New Road
by Ronald Renton
22. Matthew Fitt’s But n Ben A-Go-Go
by Christine Robinson
21. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Catriona
by Christopher MacLachlan
20. The Scottish Ballads
by Sarah M. Dunnigan
19. Naomi Mitchison’s Early in Orcadia, The Big House and Travel Light
by Moira Burgess
18. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae and The Ebb-Tide
by Gerard Carruthers
17. Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and Whit
by Alan MacGillivray
16. Liz Lochhead’s Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
by Margery Palmer McCulloch
15. The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid
by Alan Riach
14. William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw
by Beth Dickson
13. John Buchan’s Witch Wood, Huntingtower and The Thirty-Nine Steps
by Christopher MacLachlan
12. The Poetry of William Dunbar
by Ronald D. S. Jack
11. The Poems of Robert Henryson
by Gerald Baird
10. Robin Jenkins’s The Cone-Gatherers
by Iain Crichton Smith
9. Robert Burns
by Kenneth Simpson
8. The Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith
by John Blackburn
7. Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by David S. Robb
5. The Poetry of Norman MacCaig
by Roderick Watson
4. James Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
by Elaine Petrie
3. George Douglas Brown’s
The House with the Green Shutters
by Iain Crichton Smith
2. The Poetry of Edwin Morgan
SECOND EDITION
by James McGonigal
1. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song
by Douglas Young