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Shlok Godiyal and Louis Duncan Payne discuss the Super Power Agency at Leith Acadamye with author Ian Rankin (Photo: Angus Blackburn)

Writer Ian Rankin joins the Super Power Agency

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ebus author Ian Rankin shared some of his love of literacy with a group of Scots schoolchildren yesterday. He was supporting the Super Power Agency,...

Celebrating the nation’s micro-distilleries

Books | Reviews
Distillation is a sort of magic that involves taking humble grains and turning them into wonderfully intoxicating spirits. Industrialisation has sucked the magic from the...

Celebrating the Gaelic experience

Books | Reviews
A forgotten and marginalised culture, the Gaelic experience is exposed as it was, is and all it might be. Written in both English and Gaelic,...

A historical novel that’s so intense it feels real

Books | Reviews | Scotland
Rosemary Goringā€™s powerful sequel to her critically acclaimed debut After Flodden is set in the tumultuous borderlands of Scotland and England. Dacreā€™s War is a...

A handy guide to Scotland’s monsters and creatures

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From unicorns and dragons to the Ghillie Dhu and Morag of Morhobhar, The Book of Beasties: A Scottish Bestiary of Old is a beautifully illustrated...

When gambling debts lead to a kidnapping

Books | Reviews | Scotland
Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholasā€™ gambling debts. Penniless and desperate, the couple turn to crime...
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