M. John Harrison has long laboured under the unfortunate moniker of being a ‘writer’s writer’. This has always been reviewer code for ‘writer not many people read’. Active since the sixties, first pub...

Join Jordan Prosser as he talks about his latest book, Blue Giant

On the tyranny of overlooked mid-century novels

This is adapted from a talk at the Trocchi at 100 event in the Kelvinhall Glasgow organised by the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and the Andrew Hook Centre for American St…

On Scotland's invisible conduits of literary modernism.

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

On Schattenfroh and the maximalist novel

My books of the year