Book Reviews

‘The Genius of Scotland: the Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785–1834’ by Corey E. Andrews

Review by Robert Irvine

‘Flesh of the Peach’ by Helen McClory

Review by Alison Napier

‘Fallow’ by Daniel Shand

Review by Robert Wirth

‘The Daughter of Lady Macbeth’ by Ajay Close

Review by Laura Morgan

‘Community in Modern Scottish Literature’ edited by Scott Lyall

Review by Eleanor Bell

‘Black Cart’ by Jim Carruth

Review by Louisa Gairn

‘Sociolinguistics in Scotland’ edited by Robert Lawson

Review by Maggie Scott

‘Robert Burns: Selected Poems and Songs’ edited by Robert P. Irvine

Review by Corey E. Andrews

‘Scotland and the 19th-Century World’ edited by Gerard Carruthers, David Goldie, and Alastair Renfrew

Review by Caroline McCracken-Flesher

‘Every Short Story 1951-2012’ by Alasdair Gray

Review by Morna Fleming

‘Fantasy, Art and Life: Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers’ by William Gray

Review by Douglas Gifford

‘Robert Burns and Friends: essays by W. Ormiston Roy Fellows presented to G. Ross Roy’ edited by Patrick Scott and Kenneth Simpson

Review by Robert P. Irvine

‘Pack Men’ by Alan Bissett

Review by Willy Maley

‘Jamieson’s Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language’ by Susan Rennie

Review by Maggie Scott

‘Alastair Mackie: Collected Poems 1954-1994’ edited by Christopher Rush

Review by Derrick McClure

‘Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment’ edited by Thomas Ahnert and Susan Manning

Review by Gerard Carruthers

‘Travels in Scotland in Scotland, 1788-1881: A Selection from Contemporary Tourist Journals’ edited by Alastair J. Durie

Review by Jim Alison

‘The Heart Broke In’ by James Meek

Review by Douglas Gifford

‘Sightlines’by Kathleen Jamie

Review by Lilias Fraser

‘Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry’ by Silke Stroh

Review by Gioia Angeletti

‘Finger of a Frenchman’by David Kinloch

Review by Gavin Bowd

‘The Flight of Gemma Hardy’ by Margot Livesey

Review by Dorothy McMillan

‘Tales From the Mall’ by Ewan Morrison

Review by Jeanloup Pranchère

‘I Love You, Goodbye’ by Cynthia Rogerson

Review by Catherine Czerkawska