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Goring’s Scotland: Her Story. Jeanette Winterson’s Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere continues the theme of gender equality in publishing this year.”

She added: “Beautiful cookery books are always in demand at this time of year such as Simple from Yottam Ottolenghi and in the Scottish market 2016 Masterchef Professionals winner Gary MacLean’s first book, Kitchen Essentials

“Crime fiction continues to lead the Scottish market with Rankin storming the charts and Ann Cleeves bringing the Shetland series to a grand finale in Wild Fire. In politics, Brexit and Trump dominate with Michael Lewis’ The Fifth Risk and Bob Woodward’s Fear.

“History is always important to the market at this time of year and the Netflix Robert the Bruce series is also generating sales in Robert the Bruce books in Scotland. Publications on the outdoors and nature are also popular north of the border.

She said: “Books about the North Coast 500 continue to trend high on the charts – along with books like The Scottish Bothy Bible by Geoff Allan.”

Crime fiction is forecast to continue to grow next year and according to the expert, fans can expect destination crime with the setting of the book and action taking place in holiday locations. She said: “This should be a great spotlight for Tartan Noir.”