Our Favourite Scottish Books

Trumpet

By: Jackie Kay
Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron
Length: TBA

When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.

The death of legendary jazz trumpeter Joss Moody exposes an extraordinary secret. Unbeknown to all but his wife Millie, Joss was a woman living as a man. The discovery is most devastating for their adopted... Read more

Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh
Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Brought to you by Penguin.


Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film.

'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a... Read more

Scotland

A History from Earliest Times

By: Alistair Moffat
Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
Length: 23 hours 3 minutes

Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms: "Deserves a prominent place in the history canon" (Scots Magazine).



Covering the Ice Age to the recent Scottish Referendum, the acclaimed historian and author explores the history of the Scottish nation. Focusing on key moments such as the Battle of... Read more

The Reivers

The Story of the Border Reivers

By: Alistair Moffat
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

An "exciting and dramatic" history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century (Cumberland News).



Nowhere else in Britain in the modern era, or indeed in Europe, did civil order break down over such a wide area, or for such a long time, as on the border country between Scotland and England. For more than a... Read more