Prizes and Awards
- 1967 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for Remedy is None
- 1968 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for A Gift from Nessus
- 1975 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Docherty
- 1975 Whitbread Novel Award for Docherty
- 1977 Crime Writers' Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction for Laidlaw
- 1983 Crime Writers Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction for The Papers of Tony Veitch
- 1990 Glasgow Herald People's Prize for Walking Wounded
- 1990 BAFTA (screen adaptation): "Dreaming"
- 1996 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award for The Kiln
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