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
Celebrating a decade of radicalism: the 10th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair (WEB EDITION)
The Independent Radical Book Fair is an opportunity for small publishers to display their work and for authors to meet new readers, but, above all, it's for people to discuss ideas. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Features
Celebrating a Decade of Radicalism: The 10th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair (PRINT EDITION)
The Independent Radical Book Fair is an opportunity for small publishers to display their work and for authors to meet new readers, but, above all, it's for people to discuss ideas.
Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The subsections, pace and intrigue of the story ensure the reader's attention never wanders Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine - The Filth (DC Vertigo)
An eccentric British gumbo, a fever-dream of lyrical intensity and visual distortion Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Paul Auster - Travels in the Scriptorium
undoubtedly a return to what Auster does best. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Would I be too emphatic in saying that this is one of the best books I have read all year? No, because quite simply it is. Read more »| 13 Oct 2006
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Alexander McCall Smith - Dream Angus
Like a fairytale for adults, a light, rose-tinted book that almost passes you by Read more »| 13 Oct 2006 -
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Web Comic - Malkatraz
We don't need another hero... really Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Book Reviews
Fun Home
Bechdel's bittersweet coming-of-age anecdotes gently draw us in Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Incredible Alan Bissett
You'd expect a plumber to be normal and down to earth, so I don't see why writers shouldn't be either Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Andrew Robinson
Thomas Young, the anonymous polymath who proved Newton wrong, explained how we see, cured the sick, and deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among other feats of genius Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Features
Lost Girls
Alan Moore rewrites three children's classics as stories of sexual awakening, to create a work that confronts every taboo in the book. Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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Creative Writing - 'Mad Aunt's Tea Party'
By a wooden garden table and chairs, there sits a mad auntClip-shears freely wander the chairsDrops of vodka make a warm journey from the glassTo the gullets... Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Man Who Knew Too Much - David Leavitt
it borrows too heavily from other works to ever really become the unique and accessible biography it aims to be Read more »| 13 Sep 2006 -
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The Fate of the Artist - Eddie Campbell
it hardly reads as something soul-baring enough to deserve a larger audience Read more »| 13 Sep 2006