Culture
Life With Brandon McPhee: ‘I’ll never forget the moment my grandad let me try his accordion for the first time—it just felt right’
Musician Brandon McPhee on falling in love with the accordion, how Jimmy Shand continues to inspire him and the music he listens to at home. ...
The Good Books, Marisa Haetzman: ‘Denise Mina is one of Scotland’s great writers, I’m looking forward to her next book’
Dr Marisa Haetzman is a former consultant anaesthetist and together with her husband Chris Brookmyre, she writes under the joint pen name Ambrose Parry. The pair will...
Life With Victoria Crowe: ‘I’ve drawn ever since I was a small child and even then it was a kind of conversation with myself’
One of Scotland's leading painters and most recognised artists, Victoria Crowe, on her childhood, art being her first love, and her time in Venice. ...
The Good Books, Dugald Bruce-Lockhart: ‘Keeping readers enthralled as to what might happen next should be the focus of any storyteller’
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart on not reading War and Peace, his love of Mick Herron's Slow Horses and the books of his childhood. The first book...
