Book Reviews

‘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