ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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‘Time reels back and forth, shifting like a shuttle in one of those Hattersley looms that used to be heard around the village for years on e …
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Who Built Scotland? James Robe...
‘Standing before that big sandstone memorial to them at Kiltearn, from which wind and rain have stripped nearly all their names, is like sta …
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Fishnet Returns: An Interview ...
‘I’m here. I’m here. Everyone knows someone who knows someone who knows someone, and yet my sister has found a way of removing herself compl …
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David Robinson Reviews: Transc...
‘There was a trollish look to him, as if he had been put together from leftovers. He could have been sent over from Booking [a department at …
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‘I met her gaze, knowing as I did that it was a her, not just any her, but you. Then as I moved forward, very slowly, socks sliding over the …
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‘I need nothing: all I want is where I am.’
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‘Other words, however, might point to future ways of seeing the world, where we might take the time just to pause and look more, and see ane …
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‘But things were not good at the castle. My father was very ill. He’d had a minor stroke, followed by a more serious one and was confined to …
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Into the Peatlands: A Journey ...
‘She was taken out onto the moor where the family had for generations cut the thick, muddy peat to burn as fuel. At a particular spot the to …
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Old Friends and New Voices – Spotlight on Crime Fiction
This weekend sees the return of the Bloody Scotland festival, celebrating another of our most succes …
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Kelpies Illustration Prize 2018
“I was really excited to be able to attend the London Book Fair for the first time. The first thing …
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David Robinson Writes: The Ullapool Book Festival
‘If you want to see literary Scotland at its egalitarian best, Ullapool Book Festival is a great pla …
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‘We were aiming to recreate a pioneering flight made from this same Perthshire aerodrome in 1939.’
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The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands
‘Dark and brutal tales of men who lived and travelled alone.’
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Recommended reads from the Kelpies range of Scottish children’s books.
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Polly Clark
Polly Clark was born in Toronto and lives in Helensburgh on Scotland’s west coast, close to where W.H. Auden wrote The Orators. She is Literature Programme Producer for Cove Park, Scotland’s International Artist Residency Centre, and the author of thre …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
404 Ink
404 Ink is an alternative book and literary magazine publisher based in Edinburgh. Established in mid 2016 we sought to provide an alternative literary magazine for the Scottish reader market and beyond by publishing unusual fiction, non-fiction, poetr …