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1 Nov 2007
‘Ah, well. If you’re Scottish, and you’re writing crime fiction, at some point someone is going to hail you as “the new Ian Rankin” until they remember, no, actually Ian Rankin is still there. Alex Gray has been described as the Glaswegian Ian Rankin.
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…
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…
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…
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…
4 Jan 2008
TEEN (Titan) I really wanted to hate this. I was hoping for a cheesy, corporate celebrity tie-in scamming money out of a willing fanbase. Sadly, it’s a stunningly-drawn, intelligent, jet-black study of adolescent isolation. Dammit. Hana is a…
16 Jul 2007
SOCIAL DRAMA TOM SPANBAUER Now is the Hour (Jonathan Cape) With a flower in his hair, 17-year-old Rigby John Klusener is hitching his way to San Francisco, reciting an abbreviated litany of the chain of events that forced him to come out…
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
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…
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…
The 1980 terrorist bombing in Bologna that killed 85 people is the focal point of Peter Dorward’s debut novel from new Scottish publishing company Two Ravens. Idealistic, charming Don and his estranged daughter, ‘blue-stockinged virgin’ Rosie, are drawn…
22 May 2007
Look closely at your electrician. Can you imagine him as a rock singer? What about your cleaning lady - does she exhibit in the Saatchi Gallery? And have you heard the one about the aerobics teacher with a book deal? For a variety of (mostly financial…
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…
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…
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…
12 Jan 2007
1 Wi’ sangs an’ clatter It’s pure coincidence that Edinburgh’s Big Word performance poetry evening falls on 25 January but when organiser Jenny Lindsay realised the date, she decided to make the most of it.
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