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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
AL Kennedy on Day
AL Kennedy has a secret: "I am trying, desperately trying to get to write Doctor Who" she says. "To hell with the novels! It's so hard to get that gig…" I... Read more »| 11 May 2007 -
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The Savage Altar by Asa Larsson
Larsson consistently uses tired clichés and one-dimensional, over-familiar characters Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Lest the moral of the story get you down (or alienate the lucrative American market) there's a love story to divert the attention. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Prince: Thief in the Temple by Brian Morton
Purple and peach sex grooves evolving at a frightening pace... Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
Will rivet eyes to its pages. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Gold by Dan Rhodes
Who but Dan Rhodes can weave so seamlessly the hilarious and the pathetic? Read more »| 11 Apr 2007
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Believe in the Sign by Mark Hodkinson
What it means to pathologically follow failure. Read more »| 11 Apr 2007 -
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Creative Writing: Poems by Stephen Dent
[title] clyde rarely shimmeringdiscarded browna purple bridgeonce crossedunloved townfound, then lost clydeits pridewaningits swirling stomach churnsbarely ... Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Books at the Buddha
Shopping for a cool new personality need not be a massive chore Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany's novel has become a bestseller in the Middle East and earned enthusiastic comparisons to Tales of the City. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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The Song Before It Is Sung by Justin Cartwright
Enough moments of sheer suspense and bravado to be accessible to pretty much anyone. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Straight Ahead by Clare Shaw
Shaw's work hits - and bruises - with a deliberate candour Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
It's East-meets-West time, kids. Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Imposture by Benjamin Markovits
Markovits and his Polidori would have done well emulating Byron's more direct nature Read more »| 12 Mar 2007 -
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Globe by Michael O'Siadhail
A good place to find powerful and positive poetry Read more »| 12 Mar 2007