SCOTTISH BOOKS including Nigel Tranter News is a series of quarterly journals published by Thistle & Shamrock Books from November 1993 to August 1999. Among the features of each issue of this publication are articles written by Nigel Tranter that had previously appeared in other publications.
In addition to the magazine articles, the chapters from Tranter's book Land of the Scots was reprinted in this journal with a chapter being devoted to each of the Scottish regions.
The author kindly granted the editor permission to reprint these articles.
The following table presents the titles of each reprinted Tranter article and the the issue of SBiNTN in which it appears.
These back issues are available at $5US each. However, some are available only as photocopies. The special price for all 24 issues is $75
| -------------------------------------- | LNC = | Leaves from a Novelist's Casebook-------------------------------- |
| -------------------------------------- | LOS = | Land of the Scots ----------------------------------------------- |
| | Issue | Author | Page | |
| ISSUE #1 | ||||
| Introducing Nigel Tranter, the Most Prolific Scot | SB 01 | Rory Mor | 03 | 93 Autumn |
| LNC -- Researching the Story of Rob Roy MacGregor | SB 01 | Nigel Tranter | 05 | 93 Autumn |
| Callander Exhibition Explores the Legend of Rob Roy MacGregor | SB 01 | Rory Mor | 11 | 93 Autumn |
| LNC -- On the Trail of Prince Charlie's Gold | SB 01 | Nigel Tranter | 12 | 93 Autumn |
| Outlaw of the Highlands? A Review of Tranter's Rob Roy MacGregor | SB 01 | Rory Mor | 20 | 93 Autumn |
| ISSUE #2 | ||||
| Introducing Christine Marion Fraser | SB 02 | Rory Mor | 03 | 94 Winter |
| Scottishness and Sentiment | SB 02 | Nigel Tranter | 07 | 94 Winter |
| LNC --In the Footsteps of Mary Queen of Scots | SB 02 | Nigel Tranter | 11 | 94 Winter |
| End of the Boars (Review of Tapestry of the Boars) | SB 02 | Rory Mor | 17 | 94 Winter |
| Time Frames of Nigel Tranter's Historical Novels | SB 02 | Rory Mor | 18 | 94 Winter |
| LNC -- True Thomas -- More than a Rhymer | SB 02 | Nigel Tranter | 20 | 94 Winter |
| Nigel Tranter's Bannockburn Chess Set | SB 02 | Rory Mor | 25 | 94 Winter |
| ISSUE #3 | ||||
| Meet John Buchan | SB 03 | Rory Mor | 03 | 94 Spring |
| Menteith -- The Lost Lordship | SB 03 | Nigel Tranter | 13 | 94 Spring |
| We Scots -- A Flair For Flamboyance | SB 03 | Nigel Tranter | 20 | 94 Spring |
| The Story of the Bonny Earl of Moray | SB 03 | Nigel Tranter | 28 | 94 Spring |
| ISSUE #4 | ||||
| Meet Neil Gunn (1891-1973) | SB 04 | Nigel Tranter | 03 | 94 Summer |
| Discovery of Delight -- Scotland and the Novels of Neil M. Gunn | SB 04 | Robert S. Silver | 04 | 94 Summer |
| We Scots -- The Romantic Scot | SB 04 | Nigel Tranter | 19 | 94 Summer |
| The Bridal Path -- A Book That Became My First Movie | SB 04 | Nigel Tranter | 27 | 94 Summer |
| An Liath Fail -- But Which Stone is that of Destiny? | SB 04 | Nigel Tranter | 31 | 94 Summer |
| ISSUE #5 | ||||
| Meet Dorothy K. Broster | SB 05 | Rory Mor | 03 | 94 Autumn |
| We Scots -- A Streak of Dourness | SB 05 | Nigel Tranter | 10 | 94 Autumn |
| The Rake Who Turned Churchman | SB 05 | Nigel Tranter | 16 | 94 Autumn |
| The Lost Lordship of Boyd | SB 05 | Nigel Tranter | 24 | 94 Autumn |
| The Highland Clearances -- Lot of the Losers | SB 05 | Nigel Tranter | 31 | 94 Autumn |
| ISSUE #6 | ||||
| Meet George MacDonald Fraser | SB 06 | Rory Mor | 03 | 95 Winter |
| We Scots -- Men Without Scrupple | SB 06 | Nigel Tranter | 12 | 95 Winter |
| O Flodden Field -- What Really happened There? | SB 06 | Nigel Tranter | 22 | 95 Winter |
| LNC -- Border Forays | SB 06 | Nigel Tranter | 29 | 95 Winter |
| ISSUE #7 | ||||
| A Brother Remembers Finlay J. Macdonald | SB 07 | Donald Macdonald | 03 | 95 Spring |
| Crowdie and Cream Will Tempt Your Taste Buds | SB 07 | Rory Mor | 05 | 95 Spring |
| We Scots -- Canny Scots | SB 07 | Nigel Tranter | 07 | 95 Spring |
| The Lost Lordship of Duffus | SB 07 | Nigel Tranter | 17 | 95 Spring |
| Traprain Law -- The Heart of Lothian | SB 07 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 95 Spring |
| ISSUE #8 | ||||
| Meet F. Marian McNeill | SB 08 | Rory Mor | 03 | 95 Summer |
| The Battle of Otterburn -- Do the Ballads Tell the Real Story? | SB 08 | Nigel Tranter | 11 | 95 Summer |
| Meet Duncan Brown, Artist | SB 08 | RoryMor | 19 | 95 Summer |
| The Lost Earldom of Dunbar | SB 08 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 95 Summer |
| William Wallace and Modern Scotland | SB 08 | Nigel Tranter | 32 | 95 Summer |
| ISSUE #9 | ||||
| *Meet Sir Compton Mackenzie | SB 09 | Rory Mor | 03 | 95 Autumn |
| Not Just Whisky Galore, the Story Behind the Story | SB 09 | Rory Mor | 09 | 95 Autumn |
| Coldinghamshire --The County That Is No More | SB 09 | Nigel Tranter | 15 | 95 Autumn |
| A Home! A Home! The Remarkable Family of the Merse | SB 09 | Nigel Tranter | 22 | 95 Autumn |
| The Schoolboy Who Dreamt of Castles, A Story of Tranter's Youth | SB 09 | Rory Mor | 29 | 95 Autumn |
| When Does a Book Become a Book? | SB 09 | Nigel Tranter | 33 | 95 Autumn |
| ISSUE #10 | ||||
| LNC -- Best of Rage of Regents -- James Douglas, Earl of Morton | SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 03 | 96 Winter |
| LNC -- Jamie Saxt and the Gowrie Cospiracy | SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 09 | 96 Winter |
| A Douglas Will -- Insight on Life in the Fourteenth Century | SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 16 | 96 Winter |
| What Do MacBeth, George Washington, Winston Churchill and Princess Diana Have in Common? |
SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 20 | 96 Winter |
| Nigel Tranter Writes About His Favorite Characters, Walking to Work and Thoughts on Story Telling |
SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 24 | 96 Winter |
| On Living in Scotland, the Land of Challenges | SB 10 | Nigel Tranter | 26 | 96 Winter |
| ISSUE #11 | ||||
| The Stevenson Coast | SB 11 | Nigel Tranter | 04 | 96 Spring |
| The Craig of Bass, Sentinal of the Firth of Forth | SB 11 | Nigel Tranter | 10 | 96 Spring |
| The Aberlady Bay Affair | SB 11 | Nigel Tranter | 17 | 96 Spring |
| In Search of the Elusive Sir Patrick Spens | SB 11 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 96 Spring |
| Mr. Nigel Tranter --- Man of the Covenant | SB 11 | anonymous | 23 | 96 Spring |
| ISSUE #12 | ||||
| Meet James Kennaway (1928-1968) | SB 12 | Rory Mor | 03 | 96 Summer |
| Scotland's Hero King, Robert the Bruce | SB 12 | Nigel Tranter | 06 | 96 Summer |
| A Letter from Scotland (Declaration of Arbroath) | SB 12 | Nigel Tranter | 13 | 96 Summer |
| What is a Knight? | SB 12 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 96 Summer |
| Lanark and William Wallace | SB 12 | Nigel Tranter | 30 | 96 Summer |
| ISSUE #13 | ||||
| Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) | SB 13 | Rory Mor | 03 | 96 Autumn |
| A Scot's Novelist's View of Walter Scott | SB 13 | Nigel Tranter | 08 | 96 Autumn |
| Waverley, A Review and Commentary | SB 13 | Rory Mor | 08 | 96 Autumn |
| LOS 1 -- The Borders | SB 13 | Nigel Tranter | 16 | 97Autumn |
| Berwick-on-Tweed-- Historic Frontier Town | SB 13 | Nigel Tranter | 27 | 96 Autumn |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 1 - St Columba | SB 13 | Nigel Tranter | 32 | 96 Autumn |
| ISSUE #14 | ||||
| Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Unique Author | SB 14 | Rory Morr | 03 | 97 Winter |
| The Adventures of David Balfour | SB 14 | Rory Mor | 08 | 97 Winter |
| LOS 2 -- Edinburgh and the Lothians | SB 14 | Nigel Tranter | 09 | 97 Winter |
| The Mystery Ballad . . . Solved? (The Queen's Four Marys) | SB 14 | Nigel Tranter | 25 | 97 Winter |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 2 - St Andrew | SB 14 | Nigel Tranter | 32 | 97 Winter |
| Scotsmen's Homes Are Castles -- Thanks to Author | SB 14 | anonymousr | 09 | 97 Winter |
| ISSUE #15 | ||||
| Meet Dorothy Dunnett | SB 15 | Rory Mor | 03 | 97 Spring |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 3 - Macbeth | SB 15 | Nigel Tranter | 09 | 97 Spring |
| MacBeth vs MacBeth-Thorfinn | SB 15 | Rory mor | 10 | 97 Spring |
| LOS 3 -- Stirling, Clackmannan and Fife | SB 15 | Nigel Tranter | 14 | 97 Spring |
| Always the Optimist -- Nigel Tranter on the Paths of History | SB 15 | Nigel Tranter | 27 | 97 Spring |
| As I See It--(Tranter Writes About Libraries, Unpaid Writers, Bird Watching, the Magna Carta and Modern Chivalry) | SB 15 | Nigel Tranter | 30 | 97 Spring |
| Lord Stirling, Hero of the American Revolution | SB 15 | Nigel Tranter | 34 | 97 Spring |
| ISSUE #16 | ||||
| Meet James Leslie Mitchell aka 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon' | SB 16 | Rory Mor | 03 | 97 Summer |
| A Scot's Quair, An Appreciation | SB 16 | Peter Clepperr | 08 | 97 Summer |
| The Kailyard School of Scottish Literature | SB 16 | Rory Mor | 10 | 97 Summer |
| LOS 4 --The North-East -- Angus, Kinkardineshire, Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Morayshire |
SB 16 | Nigel Tranter | 12 | 97 Summer |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 4 - Saint Margaret | SB 16 | Nigel Tranter | 26 | 97 Summer |
| 'Inglis'-- Margaret's Other Legacy | SB 16 | Rory Mor | 27 | 97 Summer |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 5 - King David | SB 16 | Nigel Tranter | 28 | 97 Summer |
| Those That Built On Margaret's Legacy | SB 16 | Rory Mor | 29 | 97 Summer |
| The Author's Right -- After the Negotiations, the Waiting | SB 16 | Nigel Tranter | 31 | 97 Summer |
| ISSUE #17 | ||||
| Meet Alastair (Stuart) MacLean, 1922-1987 | SB 17 | Rory Mor | 03 | 97 Autumn |
| LOS 5 -- Perth, Inverness and the Central Highlands | SB 17 | Nigel Tranter | 09 | 97 Autumn |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 6 - King Alexander III | SB 17 | Nigel Tranter | 21 | 97 Autumn |
| The Wildfowler | SB 17 | Nigel Tranter | 22 | 97 Autumn |
| A Tour of Enchantment (A Walk With Nigel Tranter) | SB 17 | Rory Mor | 28 | 97 Autumn |
| ISSUE #18 | ||||
| Meet George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) | SB 18 | Rory Mor | 03 | 98 Winter |
| #George Mackay Brown, An Appreciation | SB 18 | Peter Clepper | 11 | 98 Winter |
| LOS 6 -- The Far North -- Ross, Sutherland and Caithness | SB 18 | Nigel Tranter | 14 | 98 Winter |
| LOS 7a -- The Northern Isles -- Orkney and Shetland | SB 18 | Nigel Tranter | 24 | 98 Winter |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 7 - James II | SB 18 | Nigel Tranter | 32 | 98 Winter |
| ISSUE #19 | ||||
| Meet Fionn MacColla (1906-1975) | SB 19 | Rory Mor | 3 | 98 Spring |
| An Apreciation of Fionn MacColla | SB 19 | Peter Clepper | 10 | 98 Spring |
| LOS 7b -- The Hebrides | SB 19 | Nigel Tranter | 10 | 98 Spring |
| Review -- A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by Samuel Johnson and The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides by James Boswell | SB 19 | Rory Mor | 19 | 98 Spring |
| Royal Timeframes of Nigel Tranter's Historical Novels II | SB 19 | Rory Mor | 20 | 98 Spring |
| Red Harlaw -- A Forgotten Battle of Supreme Importance | SB 19 | Nigel Tranter | 22 | 98 Spring |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 8 - James IV | SB 19 | Nigel Tranter | 32 | 98 Spring |
| ISSUE #20 | ||||
| Meet Marion Chesney aka M.C. Beaton | SB 20 | Rory Mor | 03 | 98 Summer |
| *Meet Hamish MacBeth -- Success Endangers His Unambitiousness | SB 20 | Rory Mor | 07 | 98 Summer |
| LOS 8 -- The Western Highlands | SB 20 | Nigel Tranter | 11 | 98 Summer |
| High Kings and Vikings -- A Review | SB 20 | Rory Morr | 28 | 98 Summer |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 9 - David Beaton | SB 20 | 26 | 98 Summer | |
| The Monarchs of Alba | SB 20 | Rory Mor | 30 | 98 Summer |
| ISSUE #21 | ||||
| Meet William McIlvanney | SB 21 | Rory Mor | 03 | 98 Autumn |
| *The Bookerists -- Some Recent Booker Prize Winners/Nominees | SB 21 | Rory Mor | 07 | 98 Autumn |
| Why can't they write a tasty middle-class melodrama? | SB 21 | Jack McLean | 15 | 98 Autumn |
| LOS 9 -- Glasgow and the Clyde | SB 21 | Nigel Tranter | 15 | 98 Autumn |
| The Ifs of Scottish History 10 - Mary Queen of Scots | SB 21 | Nigel Tranter | 25 | 98 Autumn |
| As I See It -- The New Scotland | SB 21 | Nigel Tranter | 27 | 98 Autumn |
| Shires Again (Boundary Changes For Administrative Districts) | SB 21 | Rory Mor | 30 | 98 Autumn |
| ISSUE #22 | ||||
| Meet S. R. Crockett (1859-1914) | SB 22 | Rory Mor | 03 | 99 Winter |
| The Works of S.R. Crockett--An Appreciation based on an article by Islay Donaldson |
SB 22 | 09 | 99 Winter | |
| LOS 10 -- Ayrshire and Galloway | SB 22 | Nigel Tranter | 13 | 99 Winter |
| Gullane, Gillan or Goolan -- How Do You say It? | SB 22 | Nigel Tranter | 30 | 99 Winter |
| ISSUE #23 | ||||
| Meet Iain (M.) Banks | SB 23 | Rory Mor | 03 | 99 Spring |
| Whit or Isis Among the Unsaved: A Review | SB 23 | Rory Mor | 08 | 99 Spring |
| Are You a French Citizen? | SB 23 | Nigel Tranter | 13 | 99 Spring |
| Chivalry in Order | SB 23 | Nigel Tranter | 17 | 99 Spring |
| The Right of Way | SB 23 | Nigel Tranter | 20 | 99 Spring |
| The Royal Company of Archers -- the Queen's Bodyguard in Scotland | SB 23 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 99 Spring |
| St Andrew's Day -- What's That? | SB 23 | Nigel Tranter | 27 | 99 Spring |
| ISSUE #24 | ||||
| Meet George MacDonald | SB 24 | Rory Mor | 03 | 99 Summer |
| The Gray Wolf | SB 24 | George MacDonald | 08 | 99 Summer |
| Defend the Walls (Preserving Scotland's Architectural Heritage) | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 13 | 99 Summer |
| The Clans Today | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 18 | 99 Summer |
| The Tartan and All That | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 21 | 99 Summer |
| Echo of Royal Treachery (More About the Gowrie Conspiracy) | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 23 | 99 Summer |
| Here's Tae You (A Teetotaler's Viewpoint) | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 28 | 99 Summer |
| Thawn Scots -- or just soft? | SB 24 | Nigel Tranter | 30 | 99 Summer |