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    Michael Pedersen on Muckle Flugga: Isolation, Grief & Lighthouses

    Michael Pedersen’s writing truly sparkles with energy and originality. He has published three acclaimed ...

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    Megan Willis

    Sexual, gender, and class tensions: Lucy Ribchester on her Edinburgh novel ‘Murder Ballad’ (interview)

    Lucy Ribchester is an Edinburgh-based writer whose novel Murder Ballad (also set in Edinburgh) ...

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    Keira Brown

    From Scenes Like These Deserves Its Place in the Scottish Literary Canon

    The term ‘lost classic’ is a loaded one, often referring to a book which ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    Emily Brooks Millar’s Birddad Is Hilarious, Heartfelt, and Totally Off Its Nut

    Artist, storyteller, and official comedic genius Emily Brooks Millar let SNACK take a swatch ...

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    Louise Holland

    The Malt Whisky Murders: Natalie Jayne Clark on Her Debut Crime Thriller

    Crime fiction and whisky: aspects of Scotland’s culture which have come to help define ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    How Queer Music Shaped Scotland – Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall

    Perhaps best known as the author of the acclaimed memoir Carrie Kills A Man, ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    Marginalia: Nasim Rebecca Asl and Kevin P. Gilday’s new night at The Stand deftly combines literature and comedy

    A poet, a stand-up comedian, an author, and an ex-politician walk into a bar… ...

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    Natalie Jayne Clark

    Craig A. Smith on Love, Loss, and the Shaping of Modern Scotland (interview)

    Craig A. Smith’s 2013 debut novel, The Mile, was one of the few to ...

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    Alistair Braidwood