Saltire literary awards shortlists 2011

These are the shortlists for the four Saltire Literary Awards in 2011:

'A summer of drowning' by John Burnside (publishers: Jonathan Cape)
'A Life in pictures' by Alistair Gray (Canongate)
'There but for the' by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
'Reading Shakespeare sonnets' (Faber and Faber)
'Fiere' by Jackie Kay (Picador)
'The blue book' by A L Kennedy (Jonathan Cape)
'An Cuilithionn 1939 — Somhairle MacGill-Eain' edited by Christopher Whyte (Association for Scottish Literary Studies)

'Noble power in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution' by Keith M Brown (Edinburgh University Press)
'The history of the Scottish Parliament' by Keith Brown and Alan MacDonald (Edinburgh University Press)
'Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850-1930' by Tanya Bueltmann (Edinburgh University Press)
'To the ends of the Earth' by T M Devine (Penguin)
'George Mackay Brown: The wound and the gift' by Ron Ferguson, published by St Andrew Press)
'Beyond the last dragon' by James McGonigal (Sandstone Press)
'Domination and lordship: Scotland 1070-1230' by Richard Oram (Edinburgh University Press).

'Scottish ethnicity and the making of New Zealand society, 1850-1930' by Tanya Bueltmann (Edinburgh University Press)
'To the ends of the Earth' by T M Devine (Penguin)
'Elite women and polite society in 18th century Scotland' by Katharine Glover, (Boydell & Brewer Ltd)
'Andrew Melville and humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622' by Ernest R Holloway III (Brill)
'Men of spirit and enterprise' by Suzanne Rigg (John Donald)
'The inner life of empires' by Emma Rothschild (Princeton University Press)
'Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820' by Mark Towsey (Brill)
'Enlightened evangelicalism' by Jonathan M Yeagher (Oxford University Press).

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