Success stories

Scotland’s successes

Edinburgh is often described as ‘a city built on books’. It has historically been a world centre of publishing - the first printing press in the city was set up in 1507 and the ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ was first published there.

The classic world-famous characters below were all created by Scottish authors:

• Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 
• Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie 
• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 
• Harry Potter – JK Rowling

Some cult Scottish fiction titles include: 

• ‘Lanark’ – Alisdair Gray 
• ‘Trainspotting’ – Irvine Welsh 
• ‘The Crow Road’ – Iain Banks 
• ‘Sunset Song’ – Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Some of Scotland’s newspapers and magazines with accompanying websites: 

• The Scotsman 
• The Herald
• Daily Record 
• The List