New Books by the Cargo Crate
New 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’

New 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’

Want to learn more about poetry in one fell swoop? Fancy a trip to St Andrews? Read on...

Doug Johnstone's third novel, Smokeheads, is a thriller set on the island of Islay, whisky's spiritual home...

Valentine's Day is coming up, so why don't you read one of Mills and Boon's romance novels? Because of everything that follows, that's why not

Ryan Van Winkle, reader in residence at The Scottish Poetry Library, Editor of The Edinburgh Review, and used to write reviews for The Skinny. So when he said his first...

Five years in the making (well, sort of), metaphrog's new book Louis: Night Salad is out just in time for Christmas. What is it? Read on...

The Lennoxlove book festival is a new festival, in only its second year. It’s a short series of events, over just the three days from 19-21 November, and it takes...

Dougie’s War is a new graphic novel written by Rodge Glass (who I’m frankly getting sick of interviewing) and illustrated by Dave Turbitt (who’s a nice guy). Dougie’s War focuses...

Starting university can be an alienating experience; these essential student reads will help ease your befuddlement - or feed your anger

Kevin MacNeil is a writer from Lewis whose previous work has included poetry, plays, and a debut novel The Stornoway Way - which Rodge Glass named as his choice for...

The legendary writer, magician and cultural icon discusses his new album Unearthing, reinventing H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos for the twenty-first century, and the counter-cultural collaborations of his magazine Dodgem Logic

Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley is a rare thing in the art world: someone whose work people – normal(ish) people – actually love. He's made sculptures, music videos, drawings and books...

If you fancy going to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, but aren't sure where to start, here's a little guide to the festival itself, and what to see when you're...

His incisive questioning of Australian society has seen his latest novel The Slap become a best seller and won him the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He talks to Nick Eardley about...

28-year old Fatima Bhutto, progeny of the Pakistan’s famous political dynasty, is an author and journalist in her own right. As well as contributing to numerous publications including The Daily...

Golden Hour comes to the Spiegeltent - brace yourselves...

Irregular is a literary club night, which runs, yes, irregularly, and is put on by Canongate publishing. Canongate’s Francis Bickford told us, “When we started Irregular in 2009 we wanted...

A chat with renowned author Alan Bissett about Discombobulate, his work in general, and storytelling

The Year of Open Doors is an upcoming collection of new Scottish writing, edited by Rodge Glass (properly: Dr Rodge Glass, novelist and eminent Gravian) and published by Mark Buckland...

Unbound events happen every night from 15 to 30 August in the Highland Park Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square, part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events bar the closing...