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    The Palm House: a meandering characterisation deep dive, exploring family and the significant others that come and go

    Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House, recently awarded one of the Windham-Campbell Prizes for Fiction, ...

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    Keira Brown

    Strangers on the Shore – embracing middle age and navigating the grief of not realising your life ambitions

    Author of The Giro Playboy, Michael Smith has produced part-memoir, part-autofiction in his new ...

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    Keira Brown
    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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    Alistair Braidwood
    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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    Alistair Braidwood

    Jenni Fagan – The Delusions: Souls, complicity, and instinct (Interview)

    Once described by the New York Times as ‘the patron saint of literary street ...

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    Rebekah McCrorie

    Francine Toon speaks about her new novel ‘Bluff’, distance and seeing Scotland through a more gothic lens, and the unreliability of memory (Interview)

    Scottish writer Francine Toon’s second novel, Bluff, is set in the fictional Fife town ...

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    Emily Henderson

    Rodge Glass looks back to moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, and his new book ‘Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir’ (interview)

    Rodge Glass has been writing in Glasgow for decades. He came to the city ...

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    Ted Bajer

    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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    Alistair Braidwood