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    Callum McSorley on Winning Awards, Paperboy, and Swanning About with a Lanyard

    Callum McSorley’s debut novel, Squeaky Clean, was praised far and wide, winning the Bloody ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    Chris McQueer on Hermit: masculinity, incels, and isolation

    Chris McQueer’s debut novel, Hermit, is one of the most acclaimed Scottish books of ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    Alessandra Thom on Summer Hours, Boundaries, and the beauty of Edinburgh

    Alessandra Thom was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 ...

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    Megan Willis

    Elspeth Wilson’s “These Mortal Bodies” is a devastatingly beautiful debut

    ‘Wilson expertly conveys how a trauma lingers and taints the brushtrokes of life, like ...

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    Natalie Jayne Clark

    Mhairi Collie on Fiction, Fistula, and The Bright Fabric of Life

    Taking inspiration from her work as a consultant surgeon, Mhairi Collie’s debut novel, The ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    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