Notes from the Basement – 5 May 2021
05 May '21
As May snows fall in the Cairngorms, Merryn Glover has an essay in the Sunday Post about all the things that create a sense of place and...
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Notes from the Basement – 20 April 2021
20 Apr '21
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 We’re hiring! Would you like to work at the heart of Scottish publishing? Read on for an exciting opportunity. Ian...
Notes from the Basement – 13 April 2021
13 Apr '21
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 Helen McClory has been lighting up the airwaves with her distinctive writing: Janice Forsyth noted the ‘enjoyment...
Notes from the Basement – 30 March 2021
30 Mar '21
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 Welcome back to the world! On Friday, Scotland joins the rest of the country and ‘stay at home’ moves to ‘stay...
Notes from the Basement – 23 March 2021
23 Mar '21
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 Allan Massie reviewed Andrew Painting’s Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land, calling the writing...
Notes from the Basement – 16 March 2021
16 Mar '21
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 It’s World Poetry Day on Sunday, 21st March and we’ll be looking towards it all this week with poems old...
Notes from the Basement – 9 March 2021
09 Mar '21
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 Goal! The second of our extracts from Scotland: Her Story in Women’s History Month tells the inspirational...
Notes from the Basement – 2 March 2021
02 Mar '21
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 It’s Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day is coming up… next week, on March 8. Rosemary...
Notes from the Basement – 23 February 2021
24 Feb '21
NASA landed on Mars this week, and we have a related story of scientific perseverance on the books for later this year. MD Hugh Andrew gives...
Notes from the Basement – 16 February 2021
17 Feb '21
It’s the third week in February, and the snows have fled. The light is coming back – read Norman MacCaig’s poem ‘The white bird’,...
Notes from the Basement – 2 February 2021
03 Feb '21
Signs of spring are appearing. Not only are deliveries of our first spring titles just round the corner, but other cycles of regeneration are working...
