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Best Bookshops SNACK Student Guide 2024

One of the best ways to get to know a place is to visit ...

Ten picks of the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024

This year sees the Edinburgh International Book Festival (10–25th August) move to its new ...

How Sara Sheridan’s new novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square explores 19th century Glasgow

Sara Sheridan’s novel The Secrets of Blythswood Square does for Glasgow what The Fair ...

Graeme Thomson ‘Under The Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush’ (Book Review)

Revised and updated as part of Omnibus Press’ Remastered series, Graeme Thomson’s Under The ...

Genevieve Jagger on confession, weird sex, sin, vampire mythology, and secrets

Among the most eagerly awaited debut novels of recent years, Genevieve Jagger’s Fragile Animals ...

Douglas Skelton ‘The Hollow Mountain’ (Book Review)

In terms of crime fiction, few writers have the stylistic range that Douglas Skelton ...

Andrew O’Hagan – Caledonian Road (book review)

An epic novel examining the complex lives of a cast of characters whose stories ...

Book Review – The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sara Sheridan

Although it begins on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill, Sara Sheridan’s latest novel, The Secrets of ...

Book Review – Poor Things by Alasdair Gray

As Yorgos Lanthimos’ film adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things has received not ...

Book Review – Clairmont by Lesley McDowall

There are few literary groups where the real lives of the writers garner as ...