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 and beyond.
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Book ReviewsLight by Margaret Elphinstone
The sort of fast-paced narrative which builds to a tantalizing denouement that most authors would envy Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book ReviewsHistory Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
Will give the scholarly historian something to read in the toilet. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
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An Iliad by Alessandro Baricco
It looses both the clinical realism and discursive fantasy that has made Homer popular Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Features
Us Kooks Pick Overlooked Books
Our choice of books we feel should be better known… Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Features
Richard Dawkins Event
Insightful and intellectual, without being at all superior. Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Features
Anna Politkovskaya Memorial Event - Timothy Phillips
Phillips's talk was as poignant as it was insightful Read more »| 08 Sep 2007
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Wait Until Spring, Bandini, by John Fante
Fante deserves a much wider audience, however belated Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Sharp Teeth, by Toby Barlow
A very unique book: an epic poem about werewolves in modern-day Los Angeles Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Reporting, by David Remnick
Double-filtered excellence Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Diamond Dove, by Adrian Hyland
Hyland's story, while hugely entertaining, also deals with serious issues that face rural Australia today Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
Book ReviewsAya de Yopougon, by Marguerite Abouet, illustrated by Clément Oubrerie
Abouet and Oubrerie revive an utterly enchanting world Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama
Obama's prose style is much like that of his engaging speeches Read more »| 08 Sep 2007 -
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Luke Wright's (FREE!) Poetry Party
Many people won't have been to see a poetry gig before. Clearly this is the place to start. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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Things from the Past by Steven Deighan
The book has its charm, but not enough to gloss over the adolescent fantasies and clunky style. Read more »| 09 Aug 2007 -
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The Howling Miller, by Arto Paasilinna
A deceptively simple fable concerning exploitation, corruption and narrow-mindedness Read more »| 09 Aug 2007