The Year of Open Doors
New Fiction from Modern Scotland

Featuring: Alan Bissett, Sophie Cooke, Kevin MacNeil, Colette Paul + more

In one of the most ambitious collections of recent years, Somerset Maugham Prizewinner Rodge Glass edits an exciting assembly of Scotland's most promising new writers. Writing on contemporary Scotland, The Year of Open Doors features stories from Orange Prize nominee Sophie Cooke, James Black Tait Memorial Prize nominee Suhayl Saadi, acclaimed novelist and poet Kevin MacNeil and renowned performer and novelist Alan Bissett. Throw in renowned international authors like Kapka Kassabova and Jason Donald and you have a collection that aims to show a changing and dynamic new Scotland. Cargo Publishing has also opened the door to brand new, unpublished authors; quite simply if you want to read the best new talent in Scottish fiction, you've come to the right place.