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A photo of author David Keenan, who has a grey beard and is wearing a dark suit with a patterned tie, standing against a stone wall.

The Next Page: Scotland’s Best New Books (June 2026)

The Next Page is SNACK’s round-up of some of the best books published in ...

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Alistair Braidwood

Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong: veers from endearingly silly to deadly serious – stimulating but not necessarily cohesive

Raveheart  Raveheart – Graeme Armstrong’s satirical follow-up to best-selling debut The Young Team – ...

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Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys
A photo of author David Keenan, who has a grey beard and is wearing a dark suit with a patterned tie, standing against a stone wall.

David Keenan on ‘Boyhood’ and Life in Exile from Glasgow

Starting with the critically acclaimed This Is Memorial Device, David Keenan has carved a ...

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Alistair Braidwood

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