'Together the quartet embodied a new spirit in Scottish art and they are celebrated as Scotland’s leading artists of the twentieth century.'

'As I suggested at the start, there’s a whole heap of plot in Our Noble Selves - spies, murders, and an innocent man being framed all among the ingredients.'

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'They had spoken perhaps ten sentences each and it had already begun. Moira’s resentments, her prejudices, her worry. The usual discordant ingredients comprising her tapestry of care.'

'Nane ae this then but – ma hert daen its hing/ an yon wee smile ae yours in the saft smir ae the gairden./ Aye, the haurdly nuhin ae wur tiny lives anaw,/ grandweans spinnin roon me, spinnin oot ae s...

'He sees what he wants to. And it makes a kind of sense too - especially to colonists from Scotland, already pushed to the brink of economic collapse and famine by a succession of poor harvests in the...

'Whatever the future may hold, we can be sure that The Broons and Oor Wullie will always be a part of it in Scotland.'

Harper considered Charles for a few moments, lit a cigarette, then said ‘we are treating it as murder, Mr Sinclair. So, yes, it is serious. Very serious.’

'Yet a great novel of historical fiction also has us escape the here and now by immersing us in the past. It turns the reader’s imagination into a time machine!'

'I don’t think I decided to become a writer. I just was.'

BookTrail Boarding Pass: Shadow of Madness Destination/location: Tuscany  Author/guide: D. V. Bishop  Departure Time: 1540

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'The very thought of those grey faces made my skin grow cold.'

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'This enraged the locals and he came close to being run out of town on several occasions.'

The Scottish writer Kirstin Innes speaks to Bookclub about her second novel, Scabby Queen.

'‘That’s right, Bobby,’ he growled. ‘I haven’t seen you in – well, since you decided to kill me.’ '

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Edited by Colin McIlroy and Paul Malgrati Paperback, 504 pages Association for Scottish Literature, May 2026 Price: £14.95 ISBN: 9781906841676 Pre-order from our bookshop “If you don’t go you can’t…

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A conversation and Q&A chaired by Kevin MacNeil, followed by a book signing in our foyer. Copies will be available to purchase from our shop. Everything he owned fit into a backpack and one doubled bi...

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The Scottish author’s darkly comic novels – written between shifts as a typist and cleaner – are being rediscovered 100 years after her birth

'It is their resistance to the intrusions of the outside world − culturally, economically, environmentally − that has powered the Yanomami’s survival, and with them their home territory and the ecosys...

'We need to be better aware of that to understand the challenges and achievements of the past, and to use them to assess the present and be confident in addressing it.'

Crowned Bard Anna Frater and Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay in conversation, discussing the new anthology of contemporary Gaelic poetry.

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What defines Scottish Gothic, specifically, what separates it from traditional Gothic fiction yet keeps it in that mould? This book is for all lovers of Gothic fiction; readers, writers and those in...

'I was struck by just how fun, playful and jesting Barrie was. And while I knew they developed a friendship, I didn’t realise just how much the friendship with Stevenson meant to Barrie.'