Morvern Callar

Apocalypse Archives: Simon Bateson

Take One Action Film Festival’s artistic director names the films he'd save at the end of the world

Blood in the Mobile (Frank Poulsen, 2011) ‘Docs are vital in my world. Because dramas take longer to make, docs are often more current, so I know I can influence the story. And often the people involved are jaw-droppingly courageous. None more so, or…

St Andrew's Day - The best books from Scotland

Our editors pick highlights from Scottish books through history

First up, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The ultimate doppelgänger novel, Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction about the goodly doctor and his hairy malevolent side may be officially set in London but to all intents and purposes this is a…

West End Festival

Best for al fresco frolicking There is of course more to the West End Festival than Scotland’s Mardi Gras (pictured), but the impact of 500+ musicians and costumed revellers stopping traffic on Byres Road (Sun 15 Jun) is not to be sniffed at. Propping…

Alan Warner

When the movie of Morvern Callar opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival back in 2002, there was much talk that this would be the first of many film adaptations of Alan Warner’s work. Frankly, the thought of anyone trying to get a script out of…

Alan Warner

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh International Book Festival The man who talks Alan Warner may no longer be the wild man of Scottish literature. But he still has plenty to offload on Adrian Turpin about the press, his image and a looming mid-life crisis

Alan Warner - Morvern Callar (1995)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

Morvern Callar. ‘Morvern’: West Highland Peninsula bounded by sea lochs; ‘Callar’: fresh, attractive. From the black and white cover of my Jonathan Cape first edition, the eponymous heroine stares back at me, her face smeared with peat, initiate of some…