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The Man Booker Prize at 50: Scottish authors and publishers that made the shortlist

3rd September 20183rd September 2018 Ian Scott

In 2018 the Man Booker Prize celebrates its 50th anniversary. The first award was made in 1969 but most of the novels shortlisted were published in 1968. The 2018 shortlist will be announced on 20th September and the 2018 winner on the 16th October. To mark fifty years of the prize we thought we would […]

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Virago Modern Classics celebrate 40 years of rediscovering forgotten novels

10th August 201810th August 2018 Ian Scott

When Hilary Mantel returned to Britain in 1982 after living in Botswana for five years she noticed unfamiliar green book spines everywhere. She discovered that these were Virago Modern Classics and recognised them as a change for the better in the world of publishing. Virago was founded in 1975 by Carmen Callil, Marsha Rowe and Rosie […]

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The pulp novels of Nat Karta

25th August 201725th August 2017 Ian Scott

One of the main aims of the National Library of Scotland is to collect a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom and in particular every book published in Scotland. Inevitably we miss a few items. Recently we were delighted to plug a small hole in our collections dating from the late 1940s […]

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Yes we have colouring books in the library but sorry you can’t colour them in

18th October 201618th October 2016 Ian Scott

As well as being a repository of knowledge the National Library of Scotland is an archive of publishing trends and fashions. You might remember the Magic Eye books of the mid 1990s? If you squinted at an image in these books in the right way a 3D landscape would open up before your eyes as […]

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