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Ian Rankin  (Photo: Simon Williams)

Tickets still available for Royal Scots Club Literary Lunches

Scots crime writers Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson and Lesley Kelly are the special guests of the Royal Scots Club, at their new series of themed...
Author Salena Godden (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

Wigtown Book Festival launches Ā£25,000 fundraiser

Wigtown Book Festival has launched a Ā£25,000 Book It and Spread the Word fundraising appeal to help secure the future of the literary event. The...

Swapping Glasgow to Skye in the formative years

One of the most fascinating aspects of readingĀ  autobiographical books about Scotland is learning the life experiences of others in their formative years. Whether you've...

A crime thriller in a turbulent period of history

Scottish crime fiction is a wonderfully rich and diverse area, as authors all over the land create their own characters and scenarios, with murders to...

A moving novel with a forgotten Scottish shame

In 1950s Scotland, thousands of children were removed from their families for a ā€˜better lifeā€™ in the rural idyll of the Scottish Highlands as ā€˜boarded-outā€™...

Finding what it means to be Scottish post-Brexit

What does it mean to be Scottish? According to the film Trainspotting (and I'll paraphrase by removing the expletives)... It's not great being Scottish. We're...