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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Features
Choose Your Own Adventure
If you want to learn about the re-release of the Choose Your Own Adventure books keep reading. If you want to read the local entertainment listings, turn to page 64. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
Buried - Mark Billingham
At 400 pages long this book feels padded Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
A historical voyage through the queer underbelly of Victorian London Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Long Firm - Jake Arnott
the outsider status of homosexuality is shared by villain, 'rent boy' and Lord alike Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
Rainbow City
The Remember When history project's exhibition at the City Art Centre àRainbow City, reviewed in last month's issue àpresents a fascinating look at Edinburgh's rich LGBT history. But after it closes on July 9, you'll still be able to access the results of their hard work. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
This is a wonderful book, lyrically written Read more »| 15 Jul 2006
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Book Reviews
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Fingersmith' is an engaging and ultimately very satisfying read Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Carol - Patricia Highsmith
its strongest statement may be as an indication of progress in being able to talk about these sorts of things Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
she remains a lone wolf, determined above all to remain independent of both patriarchy and matriarchy Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner
Upon learning that he is HIV positive, Manollo Follana mostly just drifts around and Thinks About His Life. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
Sugar-Coated Pill: Selected Poems - Mahmood Jamal
There is a clear sense of an approach to art and life that is grounded in the local and the human. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism - Stephen Dorril
A frighteningly detailed biography of Britain's most infamous fascist. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
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99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style - Matt Madden
Exercises in perfection Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Walking Dead: Volumes 1-4 - Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn
Robert Kirkman tackles that most American of apocalypses: the zombie plague. Read more »| 15 Jul 2006 -
Book Reviews
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
This is a wonderful book, lyrically written Read more »| 15 Jul 2006