Peggy Ann at Peggy Ann’s Post has been busy setting up a Read Scotland 2014 Challenge and although I SWORE that I wouldn’t join in any challenges – I can’t pass this one up, especially as I have loads of books by Scottish authors sitting on my shelves, unread.

Peggy Ann is doing this partly because she’s more than a wee bit of a Scotophile and partly to mark the fact that 2014 is such an important year for Scotland as there’s going to be a referendum on Scottish Independence, it is taking place on September 18th.

In fact I have so many Scottish books that I could probably spend the whole of 2014 just reading books for this challenge so I’m plumping for the Ben Nevis level, that’s 13+ books.

I haven’t decided which books to read yet but they’ll probably be some by authors who aren’t quite so well known outside the UK, maybe A.L.Kennedy, Allan Massie, Alasdair Gray, Andrew O’Hagan and Christopher Brookmyre.

Peggy has been busy doing research for this and has lots of links if you can’t think of many Scottish authors yourself. Honestly, there are loads to choose from, in fact it’s an embarrassment of riches for such a small country. Hop over to Peggy Ann’s Post to read all about it if you fancy joining in.