Novels set in Scotland

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

1927 novel by Virginia Woolf

1882 novel by Jules Verne

1877 novel by Jules Verne

1814 novel by Walter Scott

novel by the French writer Jules Verne

1986 novel by Tom Clancy

1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson

1991 novel by Diana Gabaldon

novel by Walter Scott

sequence of multi-genre novels and shorter works written by Diana Gabaldon

novel by Walter Scott

1992 novel by Alasdair Gray

novel by Ken Follett

1992 novel by Diana Gabaldon

1822 novel by Walter Scott

novel by Cornelia Funke

1984 novel by Iain Banks

novel by Walter Scott

1816 novel by Walter Scott

novel by Walter Scott

1931 novel by A. J. Cronin

1998 novel by Irvine Welsh

novella by Mary Shelley

novel by John Gardner

novel by Frederick Forsyth

novel by Walter Scott

1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott

1993 novel by Diana Gabaldon

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

2013 novel by Tom Clancy

historical novel by Ken Follett

Redgauntlet is an 1824 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, set primarily in Dumfriesshire, southwest Scotland, in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as "in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels." It describes a plot to start a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes "Wandering Willie's Tale", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies.

novel by A. J. Cronin

SilverFin is a 2005 spy novel written by Charlie Higson, and published by Puffin Books. The story focuses on the life of Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s, in which he begins his school life at Eton College, before uncovering an unethical plan to create supersoldiers whilst spending his Easter holidays in Scotland.

2018 novel by Jo Nesbø

1944 novel by A. J. Cronin

2004 novel by Ken Follett

1990 novel by John le Carré