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:
Isobel McDonald
Isobel McDonald is Curator of Social History at Glasgow Museums. Having originally studied archaeology at Edinburgh University, she had expected to go into fieldwork, however a chance conversation with a friend about job opportunities at the British Mu …
FEATURED PUBLISHER:
Canongate Books
Canongate was founded in 1973, and was taken over by current CEO Jamie Byng in 1994 following a management buyout. It has since emerged as one of the most dynamic publishing houses in Britain. With a distinctly international outlook, Canongate Books co …