The broadcaster is putting 30 books chosen by an expert panel to a public vote to find Scotland’s favourite book. Let us know what you make of the selection
Walter Scott’s Rob Roy is up against Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is competing with AL Kennedy’s So I Am Glad. As part of its #LovetoRead campaign, the BBC has launched a vote to find Scotland’s favourite book, with a selection of 30 titles by authors born or based in Scotland up for the accolade.
Chosen by a panel – which featured Glasgow University professor of Renaissance studies Willy Maley, Scottish Book Trust head of reader development Philippa Cochrane and Creative Scotland head of literature Jenny Niven – the 30 titles range from classics of Scottish literature by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) and John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), to beloved modern thrillers from Scotland’s peerless crime-writing community, including Denise Mina, Ian Rankin and Louise Welsh.
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