Culture

Book review: Japanese Whisky by Brian Ashcraft
What’s the story? Japanese whisky has been around for less than a century, and this book by Brian Ashcraft, with Idzuhiko Ueda and Yuji Kawasaki,...

The life of Thomas Telford to be marked at festival
Thomas Telford is one of the most influential Scots of the last couple of hundred years - and yet he's largely anonymous in the land...

Rockpools and Daffodils by George Mackay Brown
What’s the story? Rockpools and Daffodils is a collection of diary entries by the celebrated Scots poet George Mackay Brown, written weekly for The Orcadian...

‘Lost’ episode of TV legend returns on DVD
Patrick Macnee was a British TV legend and one of the biggest stars of the sixties. Long before Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and...