Saltire Society literary awards 2005
Short leet and winners for the Saltire Society awards presented at the National Library of Scotland, November 2005.
Saltire Society/Faculty of Advocates Scottish Book of the Year Award
- Kate Atkinson - Case Histories (Doubleday) [Winner]
- Michel Faber - The Fahrenheit Twins (Canongate)
- Clare Harman - Robert Louis Stevenson (Harper Collins)
- David Harrower - Blackbird (Faber and Faber)
- Martainn Mac an t-saoir - Gymnippers Diciadain (Ur Sgeul)
- James Meek - The People's Act of Love (Canongate)
- Barry Menikoff - Narrating Scotland: The Imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson (South Carolina Press)
- Ali Smith - The Accidental (Hamish Hamilton )
Saltire Society/Royal Mail Scottish First Book of the Year Award
- John Aberdein - Amande's Bed (Thirsty Books) [Winner]
- Leanda De Lisle - After Elizabeth: How King James of Scots won the Crown of England in 1603 (Harper Collins)
- Jenny Erdal - Ghosting (Canongate)
- Alison Flett - Whit Lassyz Ur Inty (Thirsty Books)
- Rodge Glass - No Fireworks (Faber and Faber)
- Wendy Moore - The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery (Bantam Press)
Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year
- R D Connor and A D C Simpson (edited by A D Morrison-Law) - Weights and Measures in Scotland (National Museums of Scotland and Tuckwell Press) [Winner]
- Clare A P Willsdon - In the Gardens of Impressionism (Thames & Hudson)
- Lindsay Paterson, Frank Bechhofer and David McCrone - Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change since 1980 (Edinburgh University Press)
Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year (in memory of Agnes Mure Mackenzie)
- Michael Penman - David II (Birlinn/John Donald) [Winner]
- John Guy - The Life of Mary Queen of Scots: My Heart is My Own (Harper Perennial)
- Wilson McLeod - Divided Gaels. Gaelic Cultural Identities in Scotland & Ireland c.1200-c.1650 (Oxford University Press)
- David Stevenson - The Hunt for Rob Roy: The Man and the Myths (Birlinn/ John Donald)
- Michael Brown - The Wars of Scotland 1214-1371 (Edinburgh University Press)