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Lost in Fiction

Why there's life in the book trade yet

Reading and righting

17 Feb 2010

Between the bankruptcy of Borders before Christmas and the oncoming onslaught of cheeky upstarts like the Kindle and the iPad, popular wisdom would have it that things are looking a little gloomy in the world of book selling. It’s certainly a…

Jason Donald

11 Jun 2009

Being brought up in South Africa but now living in Scotland, Donald, a graduate of Glasgow UNiversity’s creative writing course has found a way, in his debut novel Choke Chain to communicate those coming of age childhood stories in a new twist, amid the…

Denise Mina

2 Apr 2009

The award-winning Glasgow crime writer takes time out of from her play, short story and novel writing to set her stall on home turf and talk about her collection of works, including her newest, Still Midnight. Thu 16 Apr, Lost in Fiction, 114 Byres…

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…

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