Doric books and gifts inspired by the Doric dialect
SCOTTISH BOOKS EMOJI QUIZ 2025
2025 Quiz QUESTIONS AND CLUES
1. The 🐝 🏭
Hint: Frank is a teenage boy fascinated by violence and bizarre rituals, who lives with his eccentric father on a remote Scottish island.
2. S🚕y 👸🏻
Hint: The life of political activist and singer of a one-hit-wonder, told through the many people who knew her after her death.
3. The 📤🏃♀️
Hint: The memoir of a journalist's recovery journey as she leaves the bright light of London and returns to her roots in the Orkney Islands to heal.
4. 🧒🥽💤ed
Hint: Historical fiction following the story of David Balfour, his betrayal and time spent on the island of Erraid, near Iona.
5. 🌅 🎤🎶
Hint: A novel set in The Mearns in Aberdeenshire about rural farming life.
6. 🚂 👀🔎
Hint: Iconic, dark comedy set in Edinburgh about a group of drug addicts.
7. ☘️en👻th
Hint: A story about a cursed tenement building in Edinburgh and its residents affected by its curse, through nine generations.
8. ⬜️ 🍳🍳👮♂️
Hint: Famous story set in Edinburgh about a dog's loyalty to his master.
9. The 🤪 💼 of 🩺 🐕 and 👱🏻♂️🫥
Hint: The story of a man with a sinister alter ego inspired by Edinburghian, Deacon Brodie.
10. The 🪄is 2️⃣ 🔑p 🫁😮💨
Hint: A chronicle of a drama teacher's descent into grief, mental illness, and alienation.
11. The🔝of 👵🏻👖😎🎲
Hint: Iconic novel about an unorthodox teacher and her elite selection of pupils, set in Edinburgh.
12. The 🌱🗻
Hint: Nature-based, poetic novel about the author's insights and travels in the Cairngorms.
13. 💎🏴☠️🏝️
Hint: A classic tale inspired by the true story of marooned privateer, Alexander Selkirk from Lower Largo, in the East Neuk of Fife.
14. The🕊️🎫🎫
Hint: Autobiographical novel about a young girl, Janie, growing up in a poverty-stricken Scottish backstreet in the 1920s.
15. The➿in the🩸
Hint: Part two in the Scottish crime series, following clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan.
16. El🅰️🙅r 🅾️🐘 is ✅ 🆗
Hint: A novel about the life of an outsider, exploring the themes of isolation, loneliness, trauma and the need for companionship in modern times.
17. 👁️🚚🎅🏻
Hint: A classic novel about national identity and social exclusion, written by a celebrated Scottish poet and novelist who is considered a pioneer of historical fiction.
18. The 3️⃣9️⃣🪜
Hint: A classic spy thriller written by John Buchan, and adapted for film most famously by Alfred Hitchcock.
19. 🪢 and ✝️❌❎
Hint: 1987 crime novel written by Ian Rankin and one of the first of the Inspector Rebus novels.
20. 🤫😩gie 🌁📥
Hint: A brutal, semi-autobiographical novel set in the Thatcher years in Glasgow. A portrait of addiction, poverty, and resilience, exploring the deep and often challenging love between a mother and her son.
21. The♟️👬
Hint: The final part of a crime trilogy set on the Outer Hebrides in Lewis.
22. The ↩️ 🧙 of 🏴
Hint: Historical fiction inspired by the life of Janet Horne, the final person to be executed for witchcraft in Britain.
23. 🤓⚡️🪄and the 🤔🪨
Hint: The first in the series about a schoolboy wizard.
24. The 🐦⬛ 🛣️
Hint: Scottish coming-of-age novel with dark humour exploring the themes of identity, family, religion, and mortality.
25. The 📖📈of 📥ver🪺(-t)
Hint: A gripping historical thriller set in the Highlands in the wake of the 1746 Battle of Culloden.
2025 QUIZ Answers
The answers to the Scottish Book Emoji Quiz are listed below. Well done if you got all 25 correct. Congratulations to the winner, Louise McDonald, who responded within two hours on Bramble Graphics' Facebook page to collect the winning prize of a Furryboots book.
The answers to the Scottish Book Emojis Quiz 2025:
- The Wasp Factory
- Scabby Queen
- The Outrun
- Kidnapped
- Sunset Song
- Trainspotting
- Luckenbooth
- Greyfriars Bobby
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- The Trick is to Keep Breathing
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Living Mountain
- Treasure Island
- The White Bird Passes
- The Wire in the Blood
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Ivanhoe
- The 39 Steps
- Knots and Crosses
- Shuggie Bain
- The Chessmen
- The Last Witch of Scotland
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
- The Crow Road
- The Book Seller of Inverness
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