Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh to appear at childhood library in Edinburgh
2026-01-27
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh will return to the Muirhouse library he visited as a child this February, as the EdinburghContinue Reading
Gray Day 2026: Celebrating 45 Years of Lanark and the enduring legacy of Alasdair Gray
2026-01-22
The Alasdair Gray Archive (AGA) proudly presents, in partnership with Canongate, Gray Day 2026, the sixth annual celebration honouring theContinue Reading
REVIEW: Winter Words at Pitlochry Festival Theatre
2024-02-12
This is a really special festival of Scottish writing, and of nature writing. This year the line-up included the joyfulContinue Reading
REVIEW: Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival 2023
2023-09-18
Scotland’s Crime Writing Festival opened in Stirling this year with writing team Nicci French. This husband and wife duo haveContinue Reading
Ruby Wax at Glasgow’s Aye Write Festival 2023
2023-05-20
Glasgow’s Aye Write Festival opened 2023 with the fantastically funny Ruby Wax talking about her new book I’m Not asContinue Reading
Ullapool Book Festival turns its last page
2023-05-18
May saw the curtain finally fall on the nineteen year run of the Ullapool Book Festival, a real gem inContinue Reading
Bloody Scotland festival highlights
2022-09-19
This weekend (15th-18th September) in Stirling was the 10th anniversary of Bloody Scotland, Scotland’s International Crime Writing Festival, where writersContinue Reading
Scotland’s International Crime Writing Festival winners REVEALED
2022-09-15
WINNERS REVEALED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2022 & THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE The finalists for both prizes led aContinue Reading
Scotland’s National Book AWARDS announced
2021-11-16
The Saltire Society announced the shortlists for the 2021 Scotland’s National Book Awards. The winners of all ten prizes, asContinue Reading
BOOKS: Frink & Freud: The American Patient OUT 27th May
2021-05-26
In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of hisContinue Reading
Falling is Like Flying – NEW book by Dutch writer Manon Uphoff
2021-04-19
This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her olderContinue Reading
BOOK REVIEW: Boy Parts (2020) by Eliza Clark
2021-01-06
Much is begrudged by Irina, the heroine of this book, and much is let slide. She drifts through obscurity andContinue Reading
Edinburgh International Book Festival’s Winter Warmer Event 12th December
2020-12-04
Edinburgh International Book Festival announced an online Winter Warmer event as part of their ongoing Citizen project. Taking place onContinue Reading
Alexander McCall Smith’s Online Workshop @ The Cumnock Tryst
2020-09-29
In the second of The Cumnock Tryst’s series of online workshops, a part of the A Musical Celebration of theContinue Reading