CATEGORY: Fiction from Scotland
LATEST ISSUE: Heatwave
Blitzers by Alastair Chisholm
Cat Wumman by Gerda Stevenson
Centenaries, Controversies and the Scottish Sixties
David Robinson Reviews: The Letters of Muriel Spark
Drystone by Kristie De Garis
Firebloom by Justin Davies
Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me by Catherine Simpson
The Book … According to Damian Barr
The Foreshore by Samantha York
The Lost Elms: A Q & A with Mandy Haggith
The Man on the Endless Stair by Chris Barkley
The Needfire by M. K. Hardy
These Mortal Bodies: A Q & A with Elspeth Wilson
Who Will Be Remembered Here? Queer Spaces in Scotland
Women Who Dared: From the Infamous the Forgotten
ALSO ON BOOKS FROM SCOTLAND
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David Robinson Reviews: Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
‘Ross is always lucid, almost reverent, about the whole process of archaeological discovery.’
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Abdullah’s Bear Needs a Name! by Yasmin Hanif
‘”Why don’t you guess?” said Abba. “You’ll know in your heart when you’ve found the right one.”‘
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Food, Whisky, Life by Ghillie BaŞan
‘Pastries filled with ground nuts, baked fruit or creamy, semolina mixtures, and bathed in honey or …
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A Chaos of Light: New Writing Scotland
‘The attic lowed like a crystal haal, last I saa her – / dark-eyed and ready tae furgit me.’
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‘The pleasures of the unexamined life and all that. Dan had read somewhere that the lower classes – …
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Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare by Michelle Sloan
‘If you rip these bodies from the place that’s been blessed as their final place of peace, where fam …
FEATURED AUTHOR:
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was subsequently adopted by a white couple from Glasgow and grew up there. Her adoptive parents, with whom she remains very close, were Communists and often took the child …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Luath Press
Luath Press takes its name from Robert Burns, whose little collie Luath (Gael., swift or nimble) tripped up Jean Armour at a wedding and gave him the chance to speak to the woman who was to be his wife and the abiding love of his life. Burns called one …