In Praise of Bookshops and Booksellers – Alexander McCall Smith in Book Week Scotland
16 Nov '20
As Book Week Scotland opens, booksellers and librarians across the UK are in a state of, well… flux! Bookshops and libraries in England remain...
New Writing
Award-Winning New Writing from Argyll and Bute
13 Oct '20
Over lockdown, an all-age creative writing project has been running in the area of Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland. Our own Denzil Meyrick,...
The Elephant in the Room – Morgan Cry
26 Jun '20
PREQUEL SHORT STORY TO THIRTY-ONE BONES by MORGAN CRY ‘Let me get this straight, Mr Calderwood,’ I say, the noise of the insurance claim floor...
Dryburgh (Part 5)
12 Jun '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 4 here) 5. Reivers. “Christ all bloody mighty, Wilson!” Just as I began to exert pressure on the...
Dryburgh (Part 4)
05 Jun '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 3 here) 4. Dark Moon. 21st December, 1944. A slow, pink dawn crept over the snow-covered landscape, the...
Dryburgh (Part 3)
08 May '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 2 here) 3. The Wasteland Disobedience of a direct order from a superior officer had only one...
Dryburgh (Part 2)
24 Apr '20
Dryburgh – a novel in parts (read part 1 here) Explanatory Note What you have in your hands is an account of history in the old sense. For the...
Behind the Scenes of “Death Insurance” by Morgan Cry and Douglas Skelton
14 Apr '20
We chatted to authors Morgan Cry (aka Gordon Brown) and Douglas Skelton about their Lockdown collaboration, the novella Death Insurance.
Dryburgh – Alistair Moffat
09 Apr '20
I like yarns, ripping if possible, and in these the strangest of times, the escape offered by reading a ripping yarn is more valuable than ever....
A Time of Distance
09 Apr '20
Our own Alexander McCall Smith, author of 44 Scotland Street, wrote a poem for readers last week. It was read on BBC Radio 4 PM and appeared in the...
