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SCOTTISH WRITING

Test your knowledge of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction from Scotland in our interactive quiz. If you find yourself struggling, all the answers can be found by searching the EnCompass database.

 

Question 1.
What's the title of Jackie Kay's 2006 collection of short stories?

Wish You Were Here

Wish I Was There

Wish I Was Here

Wish We Were Anywhere
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Question 2.
In which novel by Irvine Welsh does Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson (of Trainspotting fame) return to his native Edinburgh?

Glue

Porno

The Acid House

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs
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Question 3.
Which Scottish writer took a break from writing fiction to pen the non-fiction book On Bullfighting?

Ian McCall Smith

A.L. Kennedy

Ali Smith

Robin Jenkins
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Question 4.
Which of Don Paterson's books of poetry won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2003?

God's Gift to Women

Nil Nil

The Eyes

Landing Light
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Question 5.
In which of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels does Rebus investigate a shooting incident at a private school where two 17-year-olds have been killed by an ex-army loner?

A Question of Blood

Resurrection Men

Set in Darkness

Fleshmarket Close
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Question 6.
In Louise Welsh's much praised debut novel The Cutting Room, where did central character Rilke work?

An abbatoir

A second-hand bookshop

An auction room

A funeral parlour
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Question 7.
Who's novels include Translated Accounts, You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free, and the Booker-winning How Late it Was, How Late?

Alan Warner

James Kelman

Gordon Legge

Michel Faber
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Question 8.
And which poet published the collections Feminine Gospels, The World's Wife and Rapture?

Liz Lochhead

Carol Ann Duffy

Kathleen Jamie

Robin Robertson
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Question 9.
Which of the following is not a novel by Iain Banks?

The Wasp Factory

Espedair Street

The Ghost Road

The Crow Road
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Question 10.
Finally, who wrote the novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books, originally published in 1981 and hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century?

Alasdair Gray

Val McDermid

Christopher Brookmyre

Anne Donovan
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