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We are delighted to announce the Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Research longlists for Scotland’s National Book Awards 2025.

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SCOTLAND'S NON-Fiction Book of the Year

My Good Bright Wolf

by Sarah Moss
Pan Macmillan
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Nature’s Genius

by David Farrier
Canongate
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Joshua in the Sky

by Rodge Glass
Taproot Press
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Cairn

by Kathleen Jamie
Sort Of Books
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In Green

by Louis D. Hall
Duckworth Books
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Ootlin

by Jenni Fagan
Cornerstone
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Russia Starts Here

by Howard Amos
Bloomsbury
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All That Matters

by Sir Chris Hoy
Hodder & Stoughton
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Foreign Fruit

by Katie Goh
Canongate
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The Ayrshire Nestling

by Gerry Cambridge
Red Squirrel Press
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SCOTLAND'S Fiction Book of the Year

A Woman of Opinion

by Sean Lusk
Transworld
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Before We Hit the Ground

by Selali Fiamanya
HarperCollins
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Hermit

by Chris McQueer
Headline
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Idle Grounds

by Krystelle Bamford
Cornerstone
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Muckle Flugga

by Michael Pedersen
Faber and Faber
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Phantom Limb

by Chris Kohler
Atlantic Books
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The Bone Diver

by Angie Spoto
Black and White
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The Unrecovered

by Richard Strachan
Bloomsbury
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This Bright Life

by Karen Campbell
Canongate
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Tommy the Bruce

by James Yorkston
Oldcastle Books
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SCOTLAND'S Poetry Book of the Year

The Tattoo Collector

by Tim Tim Cheng
Nine Arches Press
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The Keelie Hawk

by Kathleen Jamie
Pan Macmillan
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The Bone Folder

by Cáit O'Neill McCullagh

Polkadot Wounds

by Anthony Vahni Capildeo
Carcanet Press
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The Island in the Sound

by Niall Campbell
Bloodaxe Books
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I Sugar the Bones

by Juana Adcock
Out-spoken Press
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Good Sons

by Tim Craven
Blue Diode
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Exact Colour of Snow

by Bridget Khursheed
Shearsman Books
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Archivum

by Theresa Muñoz
Pavilion Poetry
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Bloodsongs

by Mae Diansangu
Tapsalteerie
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SCOTLAND'S Research Book of the Year

Plagues of the Heart

by Michelle D. Brock
Manchester University Press
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Burns and Black Lives

by Clark McGinn
Luath
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Neil MacCormick

by Maksymilian Del Mar
Cambridge University Press
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The Invention of British Art

by Bendor Grosvenor
Elliot and Thompson
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The Road to Mons Graupius

by Alan Montgomery
Tippermuir
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History of a Revoluter

by William K. Malcolm
Jetstone
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Art Deco Scotland

by Bruce Peter
Historic Environment Scotland
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