edited by Carl MacDougall, published by Canongate

• The Small Herdsman by Eona MacNicol
• The Sailing Ship by Edward Gaitens
• Sunday Class by Elspeth Davie
• The Tune Kilmarnock by John MacNair Reid
• Honest by Tom Leonard
• New Journey Forth by Joan Ure
• Murdo by Iain Crichton Smith
• Five Letters from an Eastern Empire by Alastair Gray
• Shredni Vashtar by Saki
• Clapperton by John Herdman
• Five Bits of Miller by Hugh MacDiarmid
• A Time to Dance by Bernard MacLaverty
• Tinsel by Alan Spense
• Robert/Hilda by Fred Urquhart
• Didacus by A. L. Kennedy
• A Matter of Behaviour by Naomi Mitchison
• The Boiled Egg by Rosa MacPherson
• Thou shalt not suffer a Witch by Dorothy Haynes
• The Gudewife by John Galt
• Celia by George MacKay Brown
• What’s It All About by Alexander Reid
• The Reigate Squires by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Cat by Robert McLellan
• Wandering Willie’s Tale by Sir Walter Scott
• The Gold Fish by R. B. Cunnighame Graham
• Seeking the Houdy by James Hogg
• The Man in the Boat by Betsy White
• The Moor by Neil Gunn
• The Herd of Standlan by John Buchan
• Death in a Nut by Duncan Williamson
• The Golden Key by George MacDonald
• The Library Window by Margaret Oliphant
• Kind Kitty by Eric Linklater
• Until Such Times by Jessie Kesson
• Pitmedden Folk by James Allan Ford
• Feathered Choristers by Brian McCabe
• The Old Man and the Trout by Ian Hamilton Finlay
• In the Bare Lands by Allan Massie
• The Black Madonna by Muriel Spark
• Onlookers by George Friel
• Paris by Ronald Frame
• Not not while the giro by James Kelman
• Cree Queery and Mysy Drolly by J. M. Barrie
• Clay by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• The Tutor of Curlywee by S. R. Crockett
• The General Danced at Dawn by George MacDonald Fraser
• Not, Yet, Jayette by William Boyd
• Hurricane Jack by Neil Munro
• The Canoes by Douglas Dunn