Notes from the Basement

A last hoorah before the colder days of winter… Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox and, as if in anticipation, last night the full Harvest Moon –...

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...

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...

Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 Helen McClory has been lighting up the airwaves with her distinctive writing: Janice Forsyth noted the ‘enjoyment...

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...

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 Allan Massie reviewed Andrew Painting’s Regeneration: The Rescue of a Wild Land, calling the writing...

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...

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 Goal! The second of our extracts from Scotland: Her Story in Women’s History Month tells the inspirational...

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 It’s Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day is coming up… next week, on March 8. Rosemary...

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...

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’,...

Fire up your Supremes playlist and, in tribute, read the story of Mary Wilson’s ascent to stardom, as told by Stuart Cosgrove in Detroit 67....

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