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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Events
Who's Your Dandy? - Word Power Books, Edinburgh, 12 Nov
Hold onto your over-priced flat, indie culture's happening here! Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Features
Nobel Intentions
Lessing actually considers her science fiction series to be amongst her most important work Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Book ReviewsIsms and Ologies by Arthur Goldwag
One of the seven sections here is solely about Sexual Perversions. Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Book Reviews
Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace
Peace's writing is more like poetry than the standard lingo of crime thrillers Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Book ReviewsPeter Doggett- There's A Riot Going On
Doggett details the drama of the aborted American revolution Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Book ReviewsBonfire of the Brands by Neil Boorman.
An odd hybrid of addiction memoir, pop-sociology soapbox and incendiary blog Read more »| 07 Nov 2007
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Book Reviews
Bernard Sumner: Confusion by David Nolan
Sumner occasionally interjects to clarify or correct what former acquaintances have to say about him - ""Sumner: That's just not true. Never happened"". Read more »| 07 Nov 2007 -
Features
Gray Matters, Or 'Praise by Faint Damnation'.
The author writes in his old familiar style, which is to say that he is over-influenced by himself. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book Reviews
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
How close an alter-ego is Nathan Zuckerman to Philip Roth? Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book ReviewsThe Thursday Night Letters by PK Munroe
Munroe's letters are the best part of the book Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book ReviewsThe Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
A relatively unfunny story being told and re-told Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book Reviews
Light 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 Reviews
History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
Will give the scholarly historian something to read in the toilet. Read more »| 08 Oct 2007 -
Book Reviews
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