EXPLORE ISSUES
Aye Write! Celebrated Its 10th Year in April 2015
Glasgow’s Book Festival turned 10 this year and put on a wonderful celebration of books in April. We’re already looking forward to next year, but, for now, check out this great video of some of the Aye Write! authors wishing the festival
a very happy birthday.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
When is an author not an author? When she’s an illustrator…
Leah from Floris Books gives us the inside scoop on working with illustrators.
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The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
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The Shortest History of Scotland: A Q & A with Murray Pittock
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David Robinson Interviews: John Lister-Kaye
‘I enjoy stillness. It creeps up on you and becomes almost a force. I’ve had squirrels run over my f …
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Spring 2026 Round Up of Scots & Gaelic Releases
‘Discover Jansson’s uninhibited imagination full of love, kindness, and adventure.’
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Walking Edinburgh’s Lost Railways By Robin Howie and John McGregor
‘In earlier times it was a site where lovers came to relax and dream, hence the beautiful traditiona …
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David Robinson Reviews: The Loch of the Bees
‘The past’s current flows through the characters in his fiction so strongly that it almost becomes t …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Val McDermid
Crime novelist Val McDermid grew up in Kirkcaldy, and spent a lot of her childhood with her grandparents in East Wemyss. At High School she was placed in an experimental high-IQ stream, taught separately from the other children; the Prime Minister Gord …
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Ringwood Publishing
Ringwood Publishing is a small independent Scottish Publisher, based in Glasgow, dedicated to publishing quality works of Scottish fiction and non-fiction around the key national themes of politics, football, religion, money, sex and crime. Submissions …