Poem of the Week – ‘Mareel’ by Roseanne Watt
23 Nov '20
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Mareel’ from Roseanne Watt’s collection Moder Dy. This stunning collection has won both the Somerset...
Tea Time Treat
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...
RLS Day 2020: On reading
09 Nov '20
‘I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson’ –...
We’ve Discovered a New Podcast (and we are happy to share!)
29 Oct '20
At this peculiar – and often lonely – time of social isolation, there can be few more welcome treats than the discovery of a brand new...
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,...
Festivals Galore!
08 Oct '20
Autumn is always a busy time for authors, festival programmers, booksellers and publishers alike, and we’re so happy that this year has been no...
What’s in the News as Autumn Kicks-In?
06 Oct '20
We’ve been busy in the second part of this crazy Covid summer and early Autumn. We’ve been busy, our authors have been busy and...
Take A Quite Impossible Journey Around the Railways of Scotland With Andrew Drummond
24 Sep '20
Join Andrew Drummond in a special launch-day video as he explores the fascinating world of his new book, A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to...
Bandit Capitalism – Bob Wylie In-Conversation with Ray Perman
10 Sep '20
Bob Wylie, author of Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State, in conversation with Ray Perman in launch-day podcast...
Riders on the Storm – A Video Introduction to an Essential Book
20 Aug '20
Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being is an essential, urgent book from one of the most influential writers on the...
Stuart Cosgrove Speaks Out on Cassius X, Soul Music and Social and Political Change
17 Aug '20
Author of the best-selling soul trilogy – Detroit 67, Memphis 68, Harlem 69 – Stuart Cosgrove has turned his attention to the story of Cassius X....
