Neil Forsyth: The Funniest Men In Dundee
By . Published 31 October 2011
Think that title's a bit underwhelming? You don’t know how wrong you are
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Kid Koala: "I'm not a dancefloor type of guy!"
By . Published 12 October 2011Kid Koala has never been just your average turntablist. With his new graphic novel and album, he wants to take you beyond the dancefloor, to the stars…
Getting Wasted with Allan Wilson
By . Published 26 September 2011Allan Wilson’s debut short story collection, Wasted in Love, tells stories that could be described as ‘scenes from Glasgow, 2011’. And quite frankly, it's a brilliant book, well crafted, authentic...
Alan Bissett: "It does get harder"
By . Published 29 August 2011Alan Bissett is the author of four novels, beginning with Boyracers ten years ago, as well as plays, short stories and other pieces. The characters in Boyracers are revisited in...
Zoë Strachan: “The freedom to try things out”
By . Published 29 August 2011Scottish author Zoë Strachan talks about her latest novel, Ever Fallen In Love, and why writing gets more difficult with every book
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Yorkston vs Rankin!
By . Published 04 August 2011Singer, songwriter and Fence Collective member James Yorkston will be interviewed by Ian Rankin. Need we say more?...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mr Gray, His Life and His Play
By . Published 04 August 2011Artist, novelist and playwright (amongst many other things) Alasdair Gray has two events at the Book Festival this year. We caught up with the man himself for a quiet word...
Starter for eleven: Alan Bissett
By . Published 03 August 2011Alan Bissett has written three novels to date, with his fourth, Pack Men, to be released in September. But let's see if he can answer questions on a subject he...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Lots To Do and See
By . Published 03 August 2011Perhaps too much to do and see? Want to see something at the Book Festival, but don’t know where to start? Don’t worry, we’ve broken it all down into event...
The Ways of Richard Wiseman
By . Published 01 July 2011Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at University of Hertfordshire. But before that, he was a professional magician. He describes this transition as “pretty straightforward”
James Yorkston – It's Lovely To Be Here
By . Published 30 June 2011Fans of singer-songwriter James Yorkston won’t have been too surprised to hear that the Fife dweller and sometime Fence Collective dabbler had become a bona fide author earlier this year....
The Paris Review, Interviewed
By . Published 30 June 2011The Paris Review is perhaps the best of all literary journals, and almost certainly the most reader-friendly (yes Granta, even including you) due to its emphasis on great creative, rather...
Welcome to Unbound 2011
By . Published 30 June 2011Unbound is back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011, offering up another free programme of late night performance, music and literature in the Charlotte Square Spiegeltent. Programme Manager...
Love's Rebellious Joy – A Tribute to Paul Reekie
By . Published 30 June 2011On Sunday 28 August a host of friends and fellow travellers come together for a special speakeasy shindig celebrating the life and work of Edinburgh's poet and scholar Paul Reekie,...
Sheridan Simove: The Value of Nothing
By . Published 01 June 2011“Nothing will come of nothing” said King Lear, although Shakespeare shows that plenty did. Plenty came of nothing for author Sheridan Simove too when he wrote a book with nothing...
Releasing the Valve
By . Published 04 May 2011Valve is a new literary journal, and an intriguing experiment. The experiment part is that it’s been created by students of a Strathclyde University class aimed at forming a journal...
Glen Duncan: The Wolf Returns
By . Published 07 April 2011Why would an acclaimed literary author write a book about werewolves and vampires? Why not, asks Glen Duncan
New Books by the Cargo Crate
By . Published 25 March 2011New publishing ‘label’ Cargo Crate describes itself as Scotland’s first eBook/print-on-demand publisher, and it has big ambitions for the future of ‘the book’
Some Standouts at StAnza
By . Published 04 March 2011Want to learn more about poetry in one fell swoop? Fancy a trip to St Andrews? Read on...
Doug Johnstone: Whisky Galore, And A Wee Bit More
By . Published 03 March 2011Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home...
