Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsDrugs 2.0: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High by Mike Power
Like its subject matter - at least as self-confessed popper Mike Power would have us believe - Drugs 2.0 is a stimulating read, providing a timeline of chemi... Read more »| 01 May 2013 -
Book ReviewsAye Write! The Road to War, 20 Apr
History made its presence felt in the Mitchell Library’s grand hall as two historians discussed the road to 1914. Charles Emmerson and Christopher Clar... Read more »| 23 Apr 2013 -
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Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves’ Vera Stanhope novels were dramatised for TV in 2011, and last year Detective Jimmy Perez, the patient, enigmatic investigator at the heart... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Aye Write! Best Scottish Poems Launch
Annually the Scottish Poetry Library releases an online publication entitled Best Scottish Poems. Now in its ninth year, Best Scottish Poems 2012 offers... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
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Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
It has been said that there is not a single Scottish crime writer publishing today who does not owe William McIlvanney and his eponymous hero, Laidlaw, a sty... Read more »| 22 Apr 2013 -
Book ReviewsWe're Flying by Peter Stamm
Following his celebrated novel Seven Years, We're Flying is a short story collection by Peter Stamm, brimming with insight into the psychological r... Read more »| 09 Apr 2013
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Book ReviewsThe Trade Secret by Robert Newman
Rob Newman's fourth novel is both an investigation into the pervasive forces of corporations, class and capitalism, as well as a swash-buckling adventure ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
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Love Sex Travel Musik by Rodge Glass
Sharing a theme of cheap air travel, these short stories reflect on a world lubricated by flights that cost less than lunch. Far from realising their dreams ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2013 -
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An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful by J. David Simons
J. David Simons’ new novel is primarily noteworthy for the ambition it shows in tackling difficult, often uncomfortable themes. Flitting between the yo... Read more »| 28 Mar 2013 -
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Book of the Month: The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim
Calling Hassan Blasim's second short story collection a ‘tour de force’ seems tactless – a tour by the Allied Western armies, involving dea... Read more »| 25 Mar 2013 -
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Stonemouth by Iain Banks
Stewart Gilmour returns home, after 5 years, to the small town of Stonemouth to attend a funeral, but only after getting permission from the Murstons, one of... Read more »| 05 Mar 2013 -
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The Investigation by Philippe Claudel
Philippe Claudel’s latest novel is an engrossing and often frustrating descent into the irritation and tyranny of the modern world. Frustrating becau... Read more »| 05 Mar 2013 -
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The Dandy - The Last Issue
This last ever print version of The Dandy is a pretty representative compendium of some 75 stories. The Dandy's humour was never particularly sophistica... Read more »| 01 Mar 2013 -
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Gone Again by Doug Johnstone
Edinburgh-based Doug Johnstone has pared down the breadth of his subject matter – his last novel, Hit and Run used the setup indicated by its titl... Read more »| 25 Feb 2013 -
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Me and You by Niccolò Ammaniti
The third Ammaniti novel to be translated from Italian into English, he moves away from the thriller format he experimented with in I'm Not Scared and Steal ... Read more »| 23 Feb 2013