Alistair Braidwood 
Book review: How To Survive Everything (When There’s No One Left to Trust) by Ewan Morrison
If any Scottish writer was going to tackle the task of writing a pandemic ...
Book Review: The Middle of A Sentence
Every so often a short story or prose collection comes along which helps to ...
Interview: Etienne Kubwabo Talks About the creation of Scotland’s 1st Black Superhero
Etienne Kubwabo is a filmmaker, DJ, and comic book creator who has introduced Scotland ...
Book Review: Alison Irvine – Cat Step
There’s always something extra in a novel for a reader when it’s set in ...
Magick, madness, and imagination: Jenni Fagan talks ‘Luckenbooth’
Jenni Fagan is an award-winning novelist and poet whose latest novel, Luckenbooth, is already ...
Book review: Andrew O’Hagan – Mayflies
Andrew O’Hagan often weaves fact and fiction in his novels, using real lives and ...
Interview: Alan Bissett – Lazy Susan
Alan Bissett is a novelist, playwright and performer whose debut novel Boyracers (2001) introduced ...
2020 Moments: Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain wins the Booker Prize
With 2020 drawing to a close, we’ve asked our writers to tell us about ...
Books interview: Angela Hughes – My Heart’s Content: A Journey to Transplant
Every now and again a book comes along that reminds us real-life is often ...
Review: Stuart Cosgrove – Cassius X: A Legend in the Making
Stuart Cosgrove’s ‘Soul Trilogy’ (Detroit 67, Memphis 68, Harlem 69) offered an alternative history ...
Book review: Xstabeth – David Keenan
I don’t know what I expected, but I didn’t expect this. David Keenan’s latest ...
Interview: Laura Waddell – EXIT
Laura Waddell is a writer, publisher, critic, and journalist, and has been a prominent ...
SNACK has a clear commitment to equality: we were the first, and still the only, Scottish publication to make a Keychange pledge committing to take positive action for a representative music industry.
We committed to a 50/50 gender balance in our coverage in 2021 and have exceeded this pledge annually since.
