THE winners of this year’s Saltires: Scotland’s National Book Awards – one of the UK’s oldest literary prizes – have been announced.

Scotland’s Fiction Book of the Year went to Sean Lusk’s A Woman Of Opinion, while Sarah Moss was awarded Scotland’s Non-Fiction Book of the Year prize for My Good Bright Wolf.

Meanwhile, author Kate Atkinson was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by fellow writer Sir Ian Rankin.

Kate Atkinson (Image: Helen Clyne/PA Wire)

The winners were announced at a ceremony in Edinburgh on Wednesday.

Atkinson said: “Receiving the Saltire Lifetime Achievement Award is a tremendous honour, and I am so thankful to the judges for this recognition.

“It’s a pleasure to be recognised alongside so many gifted writers.”

Atkinson has written 13 novels, includin

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