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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Features
The Wondrous World of Junot Diaz
A look at what could already be one of the books of the year, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Read more »| 05 Feb 2008 -
Book Reviews
The Golden Hour Book, by the Forest Cafe Writers.
Fine writing, fine CD attached. What more d'you want? Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Features
Free Books! Or, The Strange Return of Jekyll and Hyde.
Stevenson's skill as a writer is still abundantly clear today Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book Reviews100 Favorite Scottish Football Poems, edited by Alistair Findlay.
You'll find Bill Shankly here, 'Football boots in one hand / Football's soul in the other' Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book ReviewsTree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Has just won the American National Book Award. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book Reviews
Thirty-Three Teeth, by Colin Cotterill
An intriguing blend of mysticism and communism Read more »| 06 Jan 2008
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Book Reviews
The Mojo Collection (Fourth Edition)
The Bible for a certain breed of Music buff. Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Book Reviews
A Good School by Richard Yates
Probably the best starting point for anyone looking to begin reading Yates Read more »| 06 Jan 2008 -
Features
Peanuts: from comic strip to bookshelf
Calvin and Hobbs gave its children-as-adults morality a modern edge, Bart Simpson became the post-modern Charlie Brown, while everything from Dilbert to South Park has co-opted Schulz's minimal, clean lines Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book Reviews
Undead on Arrival by Nick Smith
Tells an altogether more 'ordinary' zombie story Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book ReviewsTamara Drewe, by Posy Simmonds
A friendly, almost Archers-feeling story with - gasp! - literary origins Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book Reviews
Edinburgh: 40 Town and Country Walks by Kerry Nelson.
Celebrates the continual contrasts that Edinburgh can offer Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
Book Reviews
Alias the Cat by Kim Deitch
Deitch's art swirls and enchants, creating a fairy universe bedevilled by sordid behaviour and uncomfortable eroticism Read more »| 07 Dec 2007 -
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