ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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‘I mean, we all went to see Bill Haley when he played Belfast. That was just an excuse to rip out the seats.’
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‘Dreams don’t have timelines, deadlines, and aren’t always in straight lines.’
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Harlem 69: The Music Behind th...
‘The Revolution will be live . . .’
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Why We Should Still Pay Attent...
‘I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot’
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‘We’ll mak siccar! Against the bashing cudgel, against the contemptuous triumphs of the big battalions…’
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The Women who Shaped Scotland&...
Who was ‘the Red Harlot of Infidelity’?
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The Scottish Clearances: The G...
‘I saw them yesterday between the hours of 8 and 12 in the morning coming in bodies from all quarters . . . making in all a body upwards of …
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‘So far I haven’t told a lie.’
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‘The constitution of the Republic is a hand held out to dialogue…’
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‘“I owe you an explanation?” The boy’s eyes were like saucers. “When did my mum turn into Jackie Chan?”’
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Between Daylight and Hell: Sco...
Blunderers, killers, conmen, scandalmongers, slave owners and more of Scotland’s ne’er do wells . . .
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Happy Birthday RLS! The Story Behind Kidnapped
‘The first book I remember owning and cherishing: there it was on the table one Christmas morning, R …
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Remembering the Fallen: Armistice Runner
‘I gave it everything, full-lunged, feeling the pain pouring into my legs, because I was desperate t …
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Remembering the Fallen: A Secret Diary of The First World War
‘I’m going to war. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday I was delivering rolls and newspapers as usual …
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Happy Halloween! Ross Mackenzie Recommends His Favourite Scary Stories . . .
Going guisin’? Dookin’ for apples? You could read these ghost stories instead . . .
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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 …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Robert J. Harris
Robert J. Harris was born in Dundee and now lives in St Andrews with his wife, sons and his dog. He is the author of many children’s books, including Will Shakespeare and the Pirate’s Fire, Leonardo and the Death Machine and zany Norse-god trilogy The …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Charco Press
Edinburgh-based Charco Press, founded by Samuel McDowell and Carolina Orloff, aims to change the current literary scene to make room for a kind of literature that has been overlooked’ and ‘expose the UK reader to new and exciting voices. Charco Press i …