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ELEANOR MORTON on boozy brunch invites, innovation, and significant women.

Eleanor Morton’s astute comedy sends up both contemporary and historical concerns. She can delicately ...

RICKY MONAHAN BROWN Book: Terminal

Published by Glasgow-based press sincere corkscrew, Scottish writer Ricky Monahan Brown’s new short story ...

RAYMOND ANTROBUS Book: Signs, Music

The line ‘poetry is music from the place we are born’ sets the tone ...

RACHELLE ATALLA Book: The Salt Flats

Rachelle Atalla’s previous novels, The Pharmacist and Thirsty Animals, introduced readers to a writer ...

MALACHY TALLACK on distance and difference between life and song.

Author and singer/songwriter Malachy Tallack brings both those creative roles to That Beautiful Atlantic ...

A Case of Matricide – Graeme Macrae Burnet (book review) Final instalment of Gorski trilogy

Graeme Macrae Burnet is best known by readers for his Booker-listed novels His Bloody ...

‘Freakslaw’: Queer Carnivalesque in Smalltown Scotland with Jane Flett

Jane Flett on her first novel Freakslaw; what happens when a travelling funfair of ...

MARGARET MCDONALD on chasing the feeling, exploration, and life-changing connections.

With the success of Yorgos Lanthimos’ screen adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things and ...

ELEANOR MORTON ‘Life Lessons from Historical Women’ (Book Review) 

For her first book, comedian Eleanor Morton gives us Life Lessons from Historical Women ...

STUART MURDOCH on finding a voice, escapism, and throwing off the shackles.

In 2015 we were introduced to ‘Nobody’s Empire’, a classic twee folk track from ...

NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42: Don’t. Even. Ask. Too. Hot. (Book Review)

The Association of Scottish Literature’s New Writing Scotland, published annually, is one of the ...