Books
The Skinny book guide – bringing you book reviews, features, events, reviews and author interviews. Find previews and on the ground reporting from festivals of literature and poetry in Scotland, England and beyond.
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Book Reviews
Khaki Shorts - Various
Khaki Shorts' is worth its salt as far as independent comics go Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Features
Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
She was perhaps the most popular and successful female, Scottish author in history Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux is best known for that scene with Christine Hamilton where she's hammered and tries ungracefully to flirt with him, but he is also famous for t... Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Speculative Architecture
Innovative designs to stimulate the public's interest in architecture, art and design. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Third Brother by Nick McDonell
McDonell's ambitions initially seem very promising. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Features
A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut
An awe-inspiringly original body of work. Read more »| 16 May 2006
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Features
The Palace
Saying The Palace is a wee bit rough is like saying Mike Tyson is a wee bit tasty with his fists. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Some Hope: A Trilogy & Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
funny, shocking and sad, but always beautifully written Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
School's Out - Christophe Dufossé
There are moments of dark humour and some genuinely disturbing characters, but there are more opportunities lost. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Innocent When You Dream: Tom Waits - The Collected Interviews - Mac Montadon (ed)
[I] think it's either Baltimore Negro or turn-of-the-century railroadese. Read more »| 16 May 2006 -
Book Reviews
Vampire Nation - Arlene Russo
If your imagination is captured by the insert to 'Vampire Nation', with its promise to reveal the history and secrets of the UK's thriving vampire scene, don... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Free Speech on Trial in Turkey: Murat Belge Speaks
What is embraced in Turkey as valuable by the international community is anathema to Turkish nationalism. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Epitaph
He loved it when she smoked. Afterwards, in the dark. He'd make her laugh and watch her shadow amongst the smoke. Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Features
Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature
A Sense of Place' sets the pace for a bright future for Edinburgh as a UNESCO City of Literature Read more »| 16 Apr 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Blast - Alexander Berkman
Anarchism usually stays well off the radar in mainstream political debate these days. When there's a periodic dose in the media (alongside reports from the W... Read more »| 16 Apr 2006