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
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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Flight Patterns by Lorna J. Waite: An Appreciation by Janette Ayachi
‘I’ve recently heard poetry archives described as ‘fugitive, ephemeral’, but here the wish of collec …
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The Scottish Colourists: Art & Life by Alice Strang
‘Together the quartet embodied a new spirit in Scottish art and they are celebrated as Scotland’s le …
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David Robinson Reviews: Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
‘As I suggested at the start, there’s a whole heap of plot in Our Noble Selves – spies, murders, and …
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‘They had spoken perhaps ten sentences each and it had already begun. Moira’s resentments, her preju …
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Ayont the Thistle by Jim Mackintosh, Alan Riach and James Robertson
‘Nane ae this then but – ma hert daen its hing/ an yon wee smile ae yours in the saft smir ae the ga …
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David Robinson Reviews: This Door of the Seas
‘He sees what he wants to. And it makes a kind of sense too – especially to colonists from Scotland, …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Allan Gaw
Allan Gaw studied medicine at Glasgow University and trained as a pathologist. Having worked in the NHS and universities in the UK and the US, he took early retirement and now devotes his time to writing. His published non-fiction works include medical …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Knight Errant Press
Knight Errant Press is a queer, intersectional micropublisher. They saw a definite lack of distinctly queer publishing and decided to step up. We want to empower writers to write more openly and more queerly and to not shy away from drawing on and port …