Rather than pay lip service to the canon, Literary Editor Stuart Kelly presents a subversive list of Caledonian classics to stir up a vibrant debate about our finest writers

Scotland on Sunday | June 3, 2007| | Copyright

ACORDING to one estimate, a book is published every 30 seconds. Adrift on a swelling sea of print, readers want someone else to do the navigating for them; and a whole subculture of "recommended reading" books have sprung up to help. The latest of these is Time Out's 1000 Books To Change Your Life. Scots are pretty well represented, and pretty predictable - JK Rowling (did Harry Potter change anyone's life more than her own?), Irvine Welsh, Sandy McCall Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson and suchlike. All good choices, but it did get me thinking - what books of Caledonian origin really would ...

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