ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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‘Recipes are the original open source, offering building blocks that may be adjusted across time, place and seasons to create infinite dishe …
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Wild Island: The Unremembered ...
‘Outside, birch and alder saplings were establishing themselves. In between them, stands of foxgloves had sprouted, their bugle-shaped flowe …
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‘The growing season, such as it is, is fast and brief.’
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David Robinson Reviews: Blaste...
‘if you want war, peace, dark secrets and edgy characters you can believe in, Lesley Glaister is in it for the long haul.’
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‘There are fights and misunderstandings and new relationships (and a happy ending).’
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‘As well as LeithLate’s mural map, I’ve come across a few unofficial murals dotted around the neighbourhood.’
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The Book According to . . . Is...
‘I’m not sure that I agree that youth is wasted on the young, but I do think it a pity that when you’re young you’re not old enough to enjoy …
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‘They’d become friends. More than friends. Wilma loved her, of that Maggie was sure. And – the realisation hit home – she loved Wilma.’
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‘most of your mother’s songs are still worth singing’
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‘What she doesn’t tell him is that Marie was terrified of the ordinary, the mundane, of being sucked into mediocrity and disappearing withou …
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‘But, of course, after some prompting, they all recall the goal. Who wouldn’t in a Cup Final?’
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Stay At Home! Poems and Prose for Children in Lockdown
‘This book is about lockdown – the good bits, the bad bits, and the ugly bits when nobody could get …
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Lesley Kelly’s Health of Strangers Series
‘It was the kind of gun to give you nightmares: black, shiny, approximately three foot long, and far …
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Bookshop Information In Scotland: COVID-19
Find out what your local bookshop is doing to serve their communities during COVID-19.
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The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
‘Solomn pulled his wrinkled fuschia socks straight at the ankle, attempted to smoothe away the creas …
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Making Turquoise: A Q&A with Claire McFall
‘I think emotions are the key. It’s really important to make your reader care for the character, the …
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An Extract from The Clearing by Samantha Clark
‘Once my eyes adjust and I settle in, I see it’s not completely dark. Everything is touched with a f …
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Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is the author of the novels The Gracekeepers and The Gloaming, the short story collections A Portable Shelter and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, the flash fiction chapbook The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive, and the short …
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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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