num_pages: 208
description: In this collection of 28 stories you will find Scots in a great variety depicting life, and a great variety of life depicted in Scots.From the traditional story-telling of Stanley Robertson, to the unflinching urban brutality of Irvine Welsh's A Soft Touch; from the fine portraits of rural life by David Toulmin and Sheena Blackhall to the fierce urgency of Matthew Fitt's Stervin or Janet Paisley's Vices; from Billy Kay's moving reconstruction of a 1920s mining disaster to the surreal humour of Brent Hodgson's interview with King Lear - Scots is here in all its forms, in dialects ranging from Shetland to the Borders and from Ayrshire to Leith.
language: Scots
title: A Tongue in yer Heid
titlecomplete: A Tongue in yer Heid
ratings_count: 3
places: Scotland
publisher: B & W Publishing