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Emmeline Clein – Dead Weight (book review)

Content note: discussion of disordered eating Emmeline Clein’s upcoming non-fiction work, Dead Weight, confronts ...

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Ambrose Kelly 14/02/2024

Joshua Jones speaks about Queerness, Neurodivergence, and Working class identity in debut short story collection, Local Fires (Interview)

There are some books which come as a lightning bolt out of the blue ...

James Taylor 23/01/2024

Ali Millar chats about debut novel Ava Anna Ada

Ali Millar is a new literary voice with a hot debut novel out later ...

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Keira Brown 19/01/2024

Anthology: The Golden Hours [Edinburgh Literary Salon] (review)

The Golden Hours, a collaborative project between the Edinburgh Literary Salon and Edinburgh Napier ...

Alekia Gill 03/01/2024

Book Review – The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova

Camilla Grudova is not a writer for the classic ‘nice story,’ though her stylised ...

Jo Higgs 15/12/2023

Book Review – Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, by Hwang Bo-reum, Translated by Shanna Tan

For a book to simply sink right into during the darker months, you’ll struggle ...

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Keira Brown 15/12/2023

Book Review – Maud Woolf’s Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock

The best science fiction works on a number of levels, with readers getting as ...

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Alistair Braidwood 15/12/2023

Book Review – The Old Haunts Book by Allan Radcliffe

The best writing holds a mirror to the reader, and Allan Radcliffe’s debut novel ...

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Alistair Braidwood 15/12/2023

Ten of the Best Scottish Books of 2023

Every year tells a different story in terms of books, and it’s always interesting ...

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Alistair Braidwood 08/12/2023

Book Review – They by Kay Dick

Kay Dick’s recently rediscovered dystopian masterpiece, They (1977), has arrived at a jarringly nose-on ...

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Ambrose Kelly 16/11/2023

Book – Connective Tissue by Eleanor Thom

Eleanor Thom’s Connective Tissue begins as two stories across time, but they weave together ...

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Alistair Braidwood 15/11/2023

Interview – Gillian Shirreffs On Brodie And The Unreliable Narrator

Every so often a book comes along with a premise so original that you ...

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Alistair Braidwood 13/11/2023

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