Alistair Braidwood, Author at SNACK: Music, film, arts and culture magazine for Scotland

    Alistair Braidwood

    A photograph of Frances Crawford leaning against a heavily textured, dark grey outdoor wall. She has short brown hair, wears glasses, and is smiling directly at the camera. She is wearing a dark blue, multi-pocketed jacket over a dark shirt. To the right of the frame, tall green weeds with small pink flowers are visible growing alongside the wall.

    Interview: Frances Crawford on Giving the Victim a Voice in ‘A Bad, Bad Place’

    Often, the best debut novels introduce readers to people and places you may have ...

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    Alison Irvine inside the Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom

    Interview: Alison Irvine on the alchemy of ‘Barrowland’

    Few buildings come to shape and define a city’s self-image as the Barrowland Ballroom ...

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    Six Must-See Events at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025

    This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival returns to Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the ...

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    Callum McSorley on Winning Awards, Paperboy, and Swanning About with a Lanyard

    Callum McSorley’s debut novel, Squeaky Clean, was praised far and wide, winning the Bloody ...

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    Chris McQueer on Hermit: masculinity, incels, and isolation

    Chris McQueer’s debut novel, Hermit, is one of the most acclaimed Scottish books of ...

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    Mhairi Collie on Fiction, Fistula, and The Bright Fabric of Life

    Taking inspiration from her work as a consultant surgeon, Mhairi Collie’s debut novel, The ...

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    From Scenes Like These Deserves Its Place in the Scottish Literary Canon

    The term ‘lost classic’ is a loaded one, often referring to a book which ...

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    The Malt Whisky Murders: Natalie Jayne Clark on Her Debut Crime Thriller

    Crime fiction and whisky: aspects of Scotland’s culture which have come to help define ...

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