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    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 ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

    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 ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

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

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

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    Megan Willis

    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 ...

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    Alistair Braidwood

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

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

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    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 ...

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    Keira Brown

    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 ...

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    Alistair Braidwood
    Fern Brady at Edinburgh International Book Festival.

    Edinburgh International Book Festival 2024: formidable & invigorating (review)

    The Edinburgh International Book Festival marked two firsts in 2024: its first run under ...

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    Keira Brown