Culture

CULTURE

OUR GUIDE TO BOOKS, FILMS, TV,
MUSIC AND EVENTS

The light fantastic at Over Lunan (Photo: Al Smith)

A unique night time promenade performance

Dunes by the sea are coming to life each night until September 19. Commissioned by Hospitalfield and Arbroath 2020+1, Over Lunan is an extraordinary promenade...
Robert Duncan won the Wigtown Scots Prize

Wigtown Poetry Prize competition winners revealed

The 2021 winners of the Wigtown Poetry Prize, Scotland’s annual international awards for poems in the nation’s three indigenous languages, have been revealed. A mark...

Discover the stunning islands of adventure

Treasured Islands’ blurb says that there are 6,000 islands around the coast of the British Isles, and that only 194 of them are inhabited –...

Finding romance in Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens

Dedicated ‘to the lovers who vowed to wed in secret during lockdown’, Sara Sheridan hints at the intense romance of this piece of historical fiction...

Plane crash victims died before flight in crime novel

Denzil Meyrick’s Tartan Noir becomes more credible with each release, and he has really hit his stride with this one. Each character contributes a unique...
John Baxter, Jane Masters and Lea Barrie at New Lanark

New Lanark launches celebratory conference

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to speak at a three-day conference in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Owen. New...