Top Ten favourite characters from a Scottish book

I posted recently about the vote for your favourite character from a Scottish book – well the results are in!

 

Here’s the top 10 – see all the details at the Scottish Book Trust site.

 

1. Francis Crawford of Lymond

The Game of Kings

Dorothy Dunnett – see Dorothy Dunnett books in our library catalogue

 

2. Begbie

Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh – see Irvine Welsh books in our library catalogue

 

3. Rebus

various

Ian Rankin – see Ian Rankin books in our library catalogue

 

4. Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle – see Arthur Conan Doyle books in our library catalogue

 

5. Chris Guthrie

Sunset Song

Lewis Grassic Gibbon – see Lewis Grassic Gibbon (a pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell) books in our library catalogue

 

6. Hermione Granger

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

J K Rowling – see J K Rowling books in our library catalogue

 

7. Katie Morag

Katie Morag

Mairi Hedderwick – sorry no Mairi Hedderwick books in our library!

 

8. Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark – see Muriel Spark books in our library catalogue

 

=9. Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie D C Thomson – sorry no Oor Wullie in our library!

 

=9. Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

J K Rowling – see J K Rowling books in our library catalogue

 

 

 

 

Clare Allan

Subject Librarian