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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FeaturesChristmas is Cancelled
His nickname among his peers, 'Darwin's Rottweiler', may only be partially complimentary Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
Features
Prologue
I may have overpriced my integrity by suggesting that an island in the Bahamas would buy my gushing praise Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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KatzenJammer - Creative Writing
The slickness of the drink had fuddled the part of my brain known as the 'mum-spot', the part which always knew best. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Book Reviews
Scots Who Made America, by Rick Wilson
The first man on the moon was the son of a Scotsman and Uncle Sam himself came from Greenock Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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The Gift - Lewis Hyde
his examples serve as a fascinating survey of human myth-making Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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House of Meetings by Martin Amis
an astonishing command of grammar and a vocabulary that the average dictionary would envy Read more »| 12 Nov 2006
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Features
Slam Dunk - The Big Word
In relief to this entertainment machine of processed meets, The Big Word is back to throw a spanner in the works Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Scottish Writers Conquer the Universe!
a product of the scientific, engineering tradition on the one hand and the mystic Celtic background on the other, generating SF with a lyrical strand and fantasy with particularly strong backgrounds Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
subjects such as the breakdown of family relations and the stifling atmosphere of eighteenth century London are described without qualms or precedent Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
The Monarch of the Glen' charts the rise of an ancient evil in the Scottish Highlands (obvious when you think about it) Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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Cautionary Tales: Comic Verse for The Twenty First Century by James Landale
Landale has replaced Belloc's characters, who Run Away from Nurse and Slam Doors, with twenty first century hell raisers who instead Play Computer Games, Shoplift and Wind Up With An ASBO. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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500 Reasons Why I Hate the Office by Malcolm Burgess
If, for some reason, you need to read a hack book about how unbearable your work life is you are just adding, masochist-like, to your woes. Read more »| 12 Nov 2006 -
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John Connolly Loses Things...
Snow White and her seven buddies add a Pythonesque comedy touch. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Book Reviews
Idea in Stone - Hamish MacDonald (Self-published)
The characters are paper thin, clichéd and unbearable Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Shame by Karin Alvtegen
The prose is crisp and the narrative fast paced Read more »| 13 Oct 2006