Northern Literary Lights

PART OF THE ScotBookFlood ISSUE

A visual snapshot of some of our favourite Scottish-Nordic books for Book Week Scotland 2017.

‘Where else can you find someone writing about a drag queens’ ball, the last night of Ramadan, or a …

‘Climb volcanoes and swim in hot springs, write stories weirder and darker and more magical than you …

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 …
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 …
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 …
The Windhover by Lorna Elcock

‘They had spoken perhaps ten sentences each and it had already begun. Moira’s resentments, her preju …
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 …
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, …