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
Small Worlds - Children's Books for Grownups [web version - POST ASAP!]
Harry Potter' has taken the shame out of reading children's fiction. But what do books intended for children have to offer adults? Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
Poetry to the People - The Callum Macdonald Memorial Award
Poetry in pamphlet form has become a cutting edge of creativity in Scottish poetry. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Dream Life of Sukhanov - Olga Grushin
Olga Grushin is obviously passionate about her subject, and for a first novel 'The Dream Life of Sukhanov' is dauntingly impressive. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Get The Skinny on the Orange Prize shortlist Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Finishing School' by Muriel Spark
In an addendum to last month's obituary, we decided to re-read Muriel Spark's last published book. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Revenge of Gaia - James Lovelock
It is good science that will help us now, not this modern Jeremiad of hopelessness and gloom. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006
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Book Reviews
Everyman - Philip Roth
Great, moving, and a masterpiece Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Events
You'll Never Forget Your First Time - the Debut Authors Festival
One of the best events of the first edition of the festival was the Unpublished Writers Jam Session, an opportunity for budding young writers to read their unpublished work in front of an expert panel. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
Spring
The sky,God's huge, cold grey eye,cries careless crocodile tearsupon the heads of us all.But we trudge grudginglyon through the sludgeand see in this drizzli... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
Small Worlds - Chlidren's Books for Grownups [NOTE: PRINT VERSION ONLY. WEB VERSION TO FOLLOW]
We read children's stories differently; we don't treat them with the same cynicism, we play along. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
Small Worlds - Chlidren's Books for Grownups
We read children's stories differently; we don't treat them with the same cynicism, we play along. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
At Breakfast
The Breakfast TableAwaits the MorningFor its Jam and ButterAnd Teabag dash.The complexity of simple thingsBuilding upTo boiling point. The clanking of cupsSa... Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton
The book makes a walk around the city much more interesting - especially a city as architecturally rich as Edinburgh or Glasgow. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Book Reviews
Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle & Sebastian Anthology - Various
At least when Kiss embarked on a ridiculous vanity comic book project they each mixed a vial of blood into the vat of red ink. Read more »| 15 Jun 2006 -
Features
The Palace (The Full Story)
It has been said that The Palace is a wee bit rough. That's like saying Mike Tyson is a wee bit tasty with his fists. It isn't rough, it's crazy; crazy in a ... Read more »| 16 May 2006