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Lost in Fiction

Lost in Fiction

13 Nov 2008

It’s been eight years since the much-missed John Smith’s bookshop on Byres Road closed its doors and turned into a branch of Starbucks. At the time, many residents of Glasgow’s West End saw it as another, depressing, sign of the times. John Smith’s…

Days Like This

Scottish Book Trust - Days Like This

16 Oct 2008

Refining that old platitude that everyone’s got a novel in them, the Scottish Book Trust launched their Days Like This project earlier this year, looking for ordinary people’s stories of their extraordinary days. ‘Days Like This is really about…

Janice Galloway - A Selfless Act

Janice Galloway - A Selfless Act

Interview

4 Sep 2008

After an absence of six years, Janice Galloway has returned with a memoir rather than a novel. Her fans won't be disappointed, though. Kirstin Innes meets her

Janice Galloway interview: full transcript

4 Sep 2008

Transcript of an interview that took place in the residence drawing room of the Scotsman Hotel in Edinburgh on Friday the 22nd of August. Janice Galloway is interviewed about the first volume of her memoirs, This Is Not About Me, which covers her life…

Paul Auster - Man in the Dark

(5 stars)21 Aug 2008

In addressing the increasingly threadbare myths that America tells itself about 9/11 and the ensuing war, Auster has shed the dazzling hyper-reflexive post-modern narrative trickery he’s known for like an empty skin, revealing something tender and…

Beatrice Colin

Beatrice Colin - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

(4 stars)31 Jul 2008

HISTORICAL FICTION (John Murray) This is a big, plush velvet cushion of a book, dense with historical detail and already picking up comparisons to Sarah Waters’ weighty, sexy epics. It’s the story of Lilly Aphrodite, an orphan turned silent movie…

Bethan Roberts - The Good Plain Cook

Bethan Roberts - The Good Plain Cook

(2 stars)3 Jul 2008

FAMILY DRAMA (Serpent’s Tail) In the mid-30s, the American heiress and philanthropist Peggy Guggenheim set up house in the Sussex countryside with her daughter, her poet lover, his daughter, and a young local girl to cook for them. Bethan Roberts has…

Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Rebecca Miller - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

(3 stars)27 Mar 2008

SOCIAL DRAMA (Canongate) At first, a novel about the awakening of a woman who has spent her life subjugated to a famous, powerful man seems almost quaintly anachronistic in today’s heady post-feminist climate. But then you remember that the novelist…

Alternative Scottish love stories make awards shortlist

11 Mar 2008

Two Scottish authors have made it onto the shortlist of the prestigious international Le Prince Maurice Prize, awarded to literary love stories which display a particular emotional intelligence. James Meek and Ewan Morrison, along with English…

James Meek

James Meek - We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

Canongate

(3 stars)31 Jan 2008

WAR DRAMA JAMES MEEK We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Canongate) After the epic scope of his post-Russian Revolution prize-winner, The People’s Act of Love, James Meek turns his eye to recent history, drawing on his experience as The Guardian’s…

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