Authors' and other celebrities' stories
We've been asking celebrities from Scotland and beyond to tell us about the books that changed their lives, and the stories are coming in thick and fast!
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Kenny Logan 
Kenny Logan is a legend of Scottish rugby. He gained the first of his 70 international caps against Australia in 1992 aged 20, and retired from international rugby after the 2003 World Cup. He also enjoyed a highly successful club career at Wasps. Kenny has appeared on the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing and has just published his memoirs, Just for Kicks.
Read Kenny Logan's story about Lassie
Brian Cox
Brian Cox is an award-winning film and stage actor. He has appeared in over 100 movies including Braveheart, Rob Roy, the Bourne trilogy, Zodiac and X Men 2. He was the original Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1986's Manhunter.
Read Brian Cox's story about The Dice Man
Murray Grigor
Murray Grigor is a writer and film-maker whose documentaries include CR Mackintosh, Sean Connery's Edinburgh, Big Banana Feet with Billy Connolly and The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. He recently co-wrote Being a Scot with Sean Connery.
Read Murray Grigor's story about On Growth and Form
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins is a film maker, writer and former Director of the Edinburgh Film Festival. He presented the BBC's Scene-by-Scene and Moviedrome programmes and recently launched The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams Festival with Tilda Swinton.
Read Mark Cousins's story about A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Michael Rosen
The Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, Michael Rosen is a poet, performer, broadcaster, scriptwriter and author of many books for both children and adults, including the award-winning We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Michael Rosen's Sad Book.
Read Michael Rosen's story about Great Expectations
Alexander McCall Smith
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over sixty books, including the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, 44 Scotland Street and the Von Igelfeld series. His books have been translated into forty-two languages. His latest novel The Lost Art of Gratitude is out now.
Read Alexander McCall Smith's story about Collected Shorter Poems (Auden)
A L Kennedy
A L Kennedy is the award-winning author of novels, short stories and two books of non-fiction. She also performs stand-up comedy and writes for the stage, radio, film and TV. Her most recent novel Day won the 2008 Costa Prize.
Read A L Kennedy's story about The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway is the author of short stories, poems and essays as well as the acclaimed novels The Trick is to Keep Breathing and Clara. Her latest book, the memoir This is Not About Me was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards.
Read Janice Galloway's story about Piano Course, Book A (The Red Book)
Sophie McKenzie
Sophie McKenzie has worked as a journalist before her first book, Girl, Missing, was published in 2006. Her latest book The Set-Up is out now.
Read Sophie McKenzie's story about The Kingdom by the Sea
Oisin McGann
Oisin McGann is an acclaimed Irish author and illustrator who writes for teenagers as well as younger children. HIs books inlcude Strangled Silence, The Gods and Their Machines and Wisdom of Dead Men.
Read Oisin McGann's story about The Lord of the Rings
Andy Stanton
Andy Stanton is a children’s author whose books include the popular and award-winning Mr Gum series. He studied English at Oxford and has been a stand-up comedian, a film script reader and a cartoonist amongst other things.
Read Andy Stanton's story about The Wasp Factory
Graham Marks
Graham Marks works as a freelance journalist and is the author of a number of young adult novels, including the award-winning How It Works. He also writes for a younger audience in a variety of styles: historical (Snatched!), fantasy (Kaï-ro) and sci-fi (Strange Hiding Place).
Read Graham Marks's story about The Outsider
Thomas Docherty
Thomas Docherty has been writing and illustrating for eight years, his work having been published in a number of countries and languages. He has been shortlisted for the 2009 Kate Greenaway Medal and his new book, Big Scary Monster, is out now. He lives in Bristol and enjoys visiting schools and libraries to help kids write and draw their own stories.
Read Thomas Docherty's story about Asterix in Britain
Alan Bissett
Glasgow-based Alan Bissett is the acclaimed author of Boyracer (2001) and The incredible Adam Spark (2005), the latter told in the voice of an 18 year-old boy with learning difficulties who believes he has acquired superpowers. His latest novel, Death of a Ladies' Man, was published in July 2009.
Read Alan Bissett's story about Weaveworld
Ewan Morrison
Ewan Morrison is the author of the novels Distance and Swung and the collection of short stories The Last Book You Read. His latest novel Menage was published in July 2009. Ewan also worked as a writer-director in television and film, was nominated for three BAFTA's, and is the winner of a Royal Television Society Best Drama Award.
Read Ewan Morrison's story about Tropic of Cancer
Sara Sheridan 
Sara Sheridan’s novels include Truth or Dare, Ma Polinski’s Pockets and The Pleasure Express. In 2000 Truth or Dare won a place in the 100 Best Scottish Books, as part of the Scottish Library Award. Her latest book The Secret Mandarin was published in 2009.
