1972/73
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
James Aitchison Sounds Before Sleep (Hogarth)
Honor Arundel A Family Failing (Hamish Hamilton)
S G Checkland The Gladstones (Oxford University Press)
George Friel Mr Alfred MA (Calder & Boyars)
Mollie Hunter The Haunted Mountain (Hamish Hamilton)
Liz Lochhead Memo for Spring (Reprographia)
Charles Maclean St Kilda (Tom Stacey)
Joseph Macleod An Old Olive Tree (MacDonald)
Alan Campbell McLean Year of the Stranger (Collins)
Iain Crichton Smith Walk Don’t Walk (Hodder)

1973/74
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
Forbes Bramble Stone (Hamish Hamilton)
Alisdair Maclean From the Wilderness (Gollancz)
Rosalind Marshall The Days of Duchess Anne (Collins)
John Murray Am Aghaidh Chgoimheach (Gairm)
David Daiches Charles Edward Stuart (Thames & Hudson)
Amy Stewart Fraser The Hills of Home (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
Robin Jenkins A Far Cry From Bowmore (Gollancz)
Norman MacCaig The White Bird (Chatto & Windus)
Edwin Morgan From Glasgow to Saturn (Carcanet)

1974/75
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
James Cameron
Mora Dickson
Douglas Dunn
Gordon Macdonald Fraser
Gordon McGill
Robin Munro
Iain Crichton Smith
Anne Stevenson
Donald Stevenson
Mary Stewart
Writers House
Munro Award to Ian Archer
Elizabeth Byrd
Dorothy Dunnett
Alexander Fenton
Robert Garioch
Flora Garry
Giles Gordon
William McIlvanney
Edwin Morgan
Iain Crichton Smith
George Malcolm Thomson
Munro Award to Wilfred Taylor

1976/77
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
George Mackay Brown
Catherine Czerkawska
Elspeth Davie
James Hunter
Elizabeth Marshall
Edwin Morgan
Robert Nye
Agnes Stewart

1977/78
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
JWM Bannerman
Marion Campbell
Edward J Cowan
Robert Garioch
John Gibson
Christopher Harvie
Mollie Hunter
John Keay
Bernard MacLaverty
Sorley MacLean
Edwin Morgan
John Purser
Alan Spence
K A Steer
Gordon Wright

1978/79
Book Awards/New Writing Awards
JK Annand
Alan Bold
Hamish Brown
David Kerr Cameron
Stewart Conn
Elspeth Davie
G F Dutton
Nicholas S Gray
John Herdman
Robin Jenkins
Bruce Lenman
Harry McShane
David Murison
Walter Perrie
Alastair Reid
Joan Smith

Spring 1980
Iain Crichton Smith An End to Autumn (Gollancz)
John Keay The Gilgit Game (John Murray)
Derek Cooper Road to the Isles (Routledge)
Forsyth Hardy John Grierson: A Documentary Biography (Faber)

Autumn 1980
K M Campbell Winter of the Eagle (George Allen & Unwin)
Bruce Lenman The Jacobite Risings in Britain 1689-1746 (Methuen)
Norman MacCaig The Equal Skies (Chatto & Windus)
Naomi Mitchison Images of Africa (Canongate)
R W Munro Scottish Lighthouses (The Thule Press)

Spring 1981
David Kerr Cameron Willie Gavin, Crofter Man (Gollancz)
Robert Crampsey The Edinburgh Pirate (Canongate)
Bernard MacLaverty Lamb (Cape)
Tessa Ransford Light of the Mind (Ramsay Head Press)
Frances J Shaw The Northern and Western Islands of Scotland (John Donald)

Autumn 1981
Anne Smith The Magic Glass (Michael Joseph)
Alasdair Gray Lanark (Canongate)
Olive Checkland Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland (John Donald)
Geoffrey Barrow Kingship and Unity (Edward Arnold)
Jenny Wormald Court, Kirk and Community (Edward Arnold)

Spring 1982
Angus Calder Revolutionary Empire (Jonathan Cape)
Hart and Pick Neil M Gunn: A Highland Life (John Murray)
Christina Larner Enemies of God (Chatto)
Michael Lynch Edinburgh and the Reformation (John Donald)
Allan Massie Death of Men (Bodley Head)
Christian Miller A Childhood in Scotland (John Murray)
Ken Morrice For All I Know (Aberdeen University Press)

Autumn 1982
Geoffrey Finlayson The Seventh Earl of Shatfsbury (Methuen)
Bernard MacLaverty A Time to Dance (Jonathan Cape)
Tom McNab Flannagan’s Run (Hodder)
Eric Richards A History of the Highland Clearances (Croom Helm)
Iain Crichton Smith Selected Poems: 1955-1980 (Macdonald)

Spring 1983
Ron Butlin The Exquisite Instrument (Salamander)
Ian Cowan The Scottish Reformation (Weidenfeld)
Eileen Dunlop The Maze Stone (Oxford University Press)
Kathleen Jamie Black Spiders (Salamander)
Edwin Morgan Collected Poems (Carcanet)
Trevor Royle Death Before Dishonour (Mainstream)
William Watson The Knight of the Bridge (Chatto)

Autumn 1983
Tom Gallacher Apprentice (Hamish Hamilton)
Alasdair Gray Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Canongate)
James Kelman Not Not While the Giro (Polygon)
Lyn Macdonald Somme (Michael Joseph)
Bernard MacLaverty Cal (Jonathan Cape)
Christopher Rush Peace Comes Dropping Slowly (Ramsay Head Press)

Spring 1984
R D Anderson Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland (Oxford University Press)
Ron Butlin The Tilting Room (Canongate)
Gordon Donaldson All the Queen’s Men (Batsford)
Harry Horse The Ogopogo (Macdonald)
Norman MacCaig A World of Difference (Chatto)
Ruth Michaelis-Jena Heritage of the Kaiser’s Children (Canongate)

Autumn 1984
Frank Kuppner A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (Carcanet)
Liz Lochhead Dreaming of Frankenstein (Polygon)
Brian McCabe Spring’s Witch (Mariscat)
Alasdair Maclean Night Falls on Ardnamurchan (Gollancz)
George Mackay Brown Time in a Red Coat (Chatto)
Agnes Owens Gentlemen of the West (Polygon)

Spring 1985
John Barrington Red Sky at Night (Michael Joseph)
David Kerr Cameron Cornkister Days (Gollancz)
Ronald Frame A Winder Journey (Bodley Head)
Eugenie Fraser The House by the Dvina (Mainstream)
Valerie Gillies Bed of Stone (Canongate)
Edwin Morgan Sonnets from Scotland (Mariscat)
Alfred Smyth Warlords and Holy Men (Edward Arnold)

Autumn 1985
Ron Butlin Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars (Secker & Warburg)
Douglas Dunn Elegies (Faber)
Elspeth Davie A Traveller’s Room (Hamish Hamilton)
Brian McCabe Lipstick Circus and other stories (Mainstream)
William Neill Wild Places: Poems in Three Leids (Luath Press)
Christopher Rush A Twelvemonth and a Day (Aberdeen University Press)

Spring 1986
Roger Billcliffe The Glasgow Boys (John Murray)
Carol Ann Duffy Standing Female Nude (Anvil Press)
Paul Hyde Details From an Apolalypse (Albyn Press)
Jessie Kesson Where the Apple Ripens (Chatto)
Norman MacCaig Collected Poems (Chatto)
Sorley MacLean Ris a’ Bhruthaich (Acair)

Autumn 1986
Anne Fine The Killjoy (Bantam)
Colin Mackay Sone of the Forest (Canongate)
Eileen Dunlop Clementina (Oxford University Press)
Tom Gallacher The Jewel Maker (Hamish Hamilton)
James Hunter and Cailean MacLean Skye: The Island (Mainstream)

Spring 1987
Iain Banks The Bridge (Macmillan)
Ronald Frame A Long Weekend with Marcel Proust (Bodley Head)
Frances Hendry Quest for a Kelpie (Canongate)
Stuart Hood A Storm from Paradise (Carcanet)
Allan Massie Augustus (Bodley Head)
Margaret H B Sanderson Cardinal of Scotland (John Donald)

Autumn 1987
G F Dutton Squaring the Waves (Bloodaxe)
James Kelman Greyhound for Breakfast (Secker)
Andro Linklater Compton Mackenzie: A Life (Chatto)
Brian McCabe One Atom to Another (Polygon)
Alastair Mackie Ingaitherins: Selected Poems (Aberdeen University Press)
Tom Pow Rough Seas (Canongate)
Duncan & Linda Williamson A Thorn in the King’s Foot (Penguin)

Spring 1988
William Boyd The New Confessions (Hamish Hamilton)
Annette Hope A Caledonian Feast (Mainstream)
Ian Jack Before the Oil Ran Out (Secker)
Kathleen Jamie The Way We Live (Bloodaxe)
Bernard MacLaverty The Great Profundo and Other Stories (Cape)
Elma Mitchell People Etcetera (Peterloo Poets)

Autumn 1988
John Burnside The Hoop (Carcanet)
Frederic Lindsay A Charm Against Drowning (Deutsch)
Norman MacCaig Voice-Over (Chatto)
Candia McWilliam A Case of Knives (Bloomsbury)
Edwin Morgan Themes on a Variation (Carcanet)

Spring 1989
Alan Bold MacDiarmid (Murray)
William Donaldson The Jacobite Song (Aberdeen University Press)
David Groves James Hogg: the Growth of a Writer (Scottish Academic Press)
Frances Hendry Quest for a Maid (Canongate)
Simon Louvish City of Blok (Collins)

Autumn 1989
John Glenday The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets)
James Kelman A Disaffection (Secker)
Ludovic Kennedy On My Way to the Club (Collins)
Frank Kuppner A Very Quiet Street (Polygon)
Carl MacDougall Stone Over Water (Secker)
Candia McWilliam A Little Stranger (Bloomsbury)
Deborah Randall The Sin Eater (Bloodaxe)

Spring 1990
William Dalrymple In Xanadu (Collins)
Sian Hayton Cells of Knowledge (Polygon)
Peter Keating The Haunted Study (Secker)
George MacBeth Collected Poems 1958-82 (Hutchinson
Eric McCormack The Paradise Motel (Bloomsbury)
Sorley MacLean O Choille gu Bearradh/From Wood to Ridge: Collected Poems (Carcanet)

Autumn 1990
Carol Ann Duffy The Other Country (Anvil Press)
Janice Galloway The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Polygon)
Andrew Greig The Order of the Day (Bloodaxe)
Todd McEwen McX: A Romance of the Dour (Secker)
Tom Pow The Moth Trap (Canongate)
Alan Spence The Magic Flute (Canongate)

Spring 1991
William Boyd Brazzaville Beach (Sinclair-Stevenson)
A L Kennedy Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains (Polygon)
Norman MacCaig Collected Poems (Chatto)
Gerald Mangan Waiting for the Storm (Bloodaxe)
Angus Martin The Larch Plantation (Macdonald, Edinburgh)
Edwin Morgan Collected Poems and Crossing the Border: Essays on Scottish Literature (Carcanet)

Autumn 1991
George Mackay Brown Selected Poems 1954-1983 (John Murray)
John Burnside Common Knowledge (Secker)
James Campbell Talking at the Gates (Faber)
Janice Galloway Blood (Secker)
James Kelman The Burn (Secker)
Robbie Kydd The Quiet Stranger (Mainstream)

Spring 1992
Elspeth Barker O Caledonia (Hamish Hamilton)
D M Black Collected Poems 1964-1987 (Polygon)
Jackie Kay The Adoption Papers (Bloodaxe)
Gordon Legge In Between Talking About the Football (Polygon)
Michael Lynch Scotland: a New History (Century)
William McIlvanney Strange Loyalties (Hodder) and Surviving the Shipwreck (Mainstream)

Autumn 1992
George Mackay Brown Vinland (John Murray)
Stewart Conn The Luncheon of the Boating Party (Bloodaxe Books)
Kathleen Jamie On Golden Peak (Virago Press)
Shena Mackay Dunedin (Heinemann)
Iain Crichton Smith Collected Poems (Carcanet)
Derick Thomson Bramble of Hope/Smeur an Dochais (Canongate)
Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! (Martin Secker & Warburg)

Spring 1993
Ian Bamforth Sons and Pioneers (Carcanet)
Ian Bell Dreams of Exile (Mainstream)
Iain Finlayson Tangier: City of the Dream (HarperCollins)
Duncan Macmillan Symbols of Survival: The Art of Will Maclean (Mainstream)
David Toulmin Collected Short Stories (Gordon Wright Publishing)

Autumn 1993
John Herdman Imelda and other stories (Polygon)
Tom Leonard Places of the Mind (Cape)
A L Kennedy Looking for the Possible Dance (Secker)
Don Paterson Nil Nil (Faber)
Iain Crichton Smith Thoughts of Murdo (Balnain Books)
Carol Ann Duffy Mean Time (Anvil)

Spring 1994
Robert Crawford Identifying Poets (EUP)
Joan Lingard After Colette (Sinclair-Stevenson)
Brian McCabe In a Dark Room with a Stranger (HH)
Shena Mackay The Laughing Academy (Heinemann)
Karl Miller Rebecca’s Vest (HH)
Dilys Rose Red Tides (Secker)
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (Secker)

Autumn 1994
Angus Calder Revolving Culture (IB Taurus)
Janice Galloway Foreign Parts (Cape)
Kathleen Jamie Queen of Sheba (Bloodaxe)
Robin Jenkins Willie Hogg (Polygon)
James Kelman How Late it Was, How Late (Cape)
A L Kennedy Now That You’re Back (Cape)
Timothy Neat Part Seen, Part Imagined (Canongate)

Spring 1995
Andrew Cowan Pig (Michael Joseph)
Andrew Greig Western Swing (Bloodaxe)
W N Herbert Forked Tongue (Bloodaxe)
Duncan Macmillan Scottish Art in the 20th Century (Mainstream)
Iain Crichton Smith Ends and Beginnings (Carcanet)
Duncan Thomson Arikha (Phaidon)

Autumn 1995
William Boyd The Destiny of Nathalie X (Sinclair-Stevenson)
Stuart Hood The Book of Judith (Carcanet)
A L Kennedy So I am Glad (Cape)
Ali Smith Free Love (Virago)
Alan Warner Morvern Callar (Cape)

Spring 1996
John Burnside Swimming in the Flood (Cape)
G F Dutton Harvesting the Edge (Menard)
Valerie Gillies The Ringing Rock (Scottish Cultural Press)
Alan Spence Stone Garden (Phoenix House)
Neal Ascherson Black Sea (Cape)
James Hunter On the Other Side of Sorrow (Mainstream)

Autumn 1996
Kate Clanchy Slattern (Chatto)
W N Herbert Cabaret McGonagall (Bloodaxe)
Carole Morin Dead Glamorous (Gollancz)
Alice Thompson Justine (Canongate)
Jeff Torrington The Devil s Carousel (Secker)

Spring 1997
Robin Jenkins Lunderston Tales (Polygon)
Muriel Spark Reality and Dreams (Constable)
James Hunter Glencoe and the Indians (Mainstream)

Autumn 1997
Meg Bateman Aotromachd agus dain eile/Lightness and other poems (Polygon)
William Dalrymple From the Holy Mountain (HarperCollins)
A L Kennedy Original Bliss (Cape)
Bernard MacLaverty Grace Notes (Cape)
Don Paterson God’s Gift to Women (Faber)
Alan Warner These Demented Lands (Cape)

Spring 1998
Duncan McLean Lone Star Swing (Jonathan Cape)
Candia McWilliam Wait Till I Tell You (Bloomsbury)
Allan Massie Shadows of Empire (Sinclair-Stevenson)
Alastair Reid Oases (Canongate)
Christopher Whyte The Warlock of Strathearn (Victor Gollancz)

Autumn 1998
William Boyd Armadillo (Hamish Hamilton)
James Kelman The Good Times (Secker & Warburg)
Dilys Rose War Dolls (Review)
Alice Thompson Pandora’s Box (Little, Brown)
Alan Warner The Sopranos (Cape)

Spring 1999
Michel Faber Some Rain Must Fall (Canongate)
Bill Herbert The Laurelude (Bloodaxe)
Robin Jenkins Matthew and Sheila (Polygon)
Jackie Kay Trumpet (Picador)

Autumn 1999
Bella Bathurst The Lighthouse Stevensons (HarperCollins)
Robert Crawford Spirit Machines (Cape Poetry)
Toni Davidson Scar Culture (Rebel Inc)
A L Kennedy Everything You Need (Jonathan Cape)
Brian McCabe Body Parts (Canongate)

Spring 2000
Kate Clanchy Samarkand (Picador)
Carol Ann Duffy The World’s Wife (Picador)
Kathleen Jamie Jizzen (Picador)
Don Paterson The Eyes: a version of Antonio Machado (Faber and Faber)
Ruth Thomas The Dance Settee and Other Stories (Polygon)

Autumn 2000
Andrew Crumey Mr Mee (Picador)
Douglas Dunn Donkey’s Ears (Faber and Faber)
A L Kennedy On Bullfighting (Yellow Jersey/Random House)
Ross Leckie Carthage (Canongate)
James Meek The Museum of Doubt (Rebel Inc)

Spring 2001
Douglas Dunn The Year’s Afternoon (Faber and Faber)
Alan Spence Seasons of the Heart (Canongate)
Margaret Elphinstone The Sea Road (Canongate)
Alasdair Campbell The Nessman (Birlinn)
Christopher Whyte The Cloud Machinery (Victor Gollancz)

Book of the Year: Hotel World by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Children’s Book of the Year: Oranges and Murder by Alison Prince  (Oxford University Press)

Shortlisted:

• The Machine Doctor by Peter Burnett  (Argyll Publishing)
• In The Blue House by Meaghan Delahunt  (Bloomsbury)
• Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler  (Macmillan)
• Pure Dead Magic by Debi Gliori (Doubleday)

Book of the Year: White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India by William Dalrymple (Flamingo)

Children’s Book of the Year: Little Rabbit Lost by Harry Horse (Viking)

Shortlisted:

• Clara by Janice Galloway (Vintage)
• Why Don t You Stop Talking by Jackie Kay (Picador)
• Pure Dead Wicked by Debi Gliori (Corgi Childrens)
• Warehouse by Keith Gray (Red Fox)

Book of the Year: Joseph Knight by James Robertson (Fourth Estate)

Children’s Book of the Year: The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird (Macmillan)

Shortlisted:

• Buddha Da by Anne Donovan (Canongate)
• Landscapes and Legacies by Tom Pow (iynx)
• King o the Midden edited by Matthew Fitt and James Robertson (Itchy Coo)
• Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan (Viking)

Book of the Year: The Tree House by Kathleen Jamie (Picador)

Children’s Book of the Year: Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan (Hodder & Stoughton)

Shortlisted:

• You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton)
  
• The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (Picador)
• Skarrs by Catherine Forde (Egmont Books)
• Space Pirates by Scoular Anderson (Francis Lincoln)

Book of the Year: The People’s Act of Love by James Meek (Canongate)

Shortlisted:

• Findings by Kathleen Jamie (Sort of Books)
• The Accidental by Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

Book of the Year: The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn (Faber & Faber)

Category winners:

• Fiction Book of the Year – The Boy and the Sea by Kirsty Gunn (Faber & Faber)
• Non-fiction Book of the Year – A Lie About my Father by John Burnside (Vintage)
• Poetry Book of the Year – Swithering by Robin Robertson (Picador)
• First Book of the Year – George Mackay Brown: The Life by Maggie Fergusson (John Murray)

Book of the Year: A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan (Carcanet Press)

Category winners:

• Fiction Book of the Year – Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith (Canongate)
• Non-fiction Book of the Year – The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane (Granta)
• Poetry Book of the Year – A Book of Lives by Edwin Morgan (Carcanet Press)
• First Book of the Year – Morocco Rococo by Jane McKie (Cinnamon Press)

Book of the Year: Kieron Smith, boy by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton)

Category winners:

• Fiction Book of the Year – Kieron Smith, boy by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton)
• Non-fiction Book of the Year – This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway (Hamish Hamilton)
• Poetry Book of the Year – Dear Alice: Narratives of Madness by Tom Pow (Salt Publishing)
• First Book of the Year – Moonshine in the Morning by Andrea McNicoll (Alma Books)