Query: 1971 fiction Scottish novels
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Scotch on the Rocks
Bear Island (novel)
Evidence from documents: Scotch on the Rocks: Written around 1968 and first published by William Collins in 1971, it was a political thriller set in Scotland in the near future (early 1970s)
Bear Island (novel): '''''Bear Island''''' is a thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. Originally published in 1971 with a cover by Norman Weaver, it was the last of MacLean's novels to be written in first-person narrative.