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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
Sex, Drugs and Rocket Science
While Pynchon possesses a singular prose style and an enormous talent, he also publishes far too rarely. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
the cumulative impact is moving and profound - mature and graceful Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Wimbledon Green by Seth
This book retains the zany sort of fun Seth must have had in writing it Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Creative Writing: Five Glasgow Tanka
How wonderful – snowbright and short-lived descendingwith equal magicon the couple from Iranand our wide-eyed one year old. * The ice cube explodesin my... Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Shenzhen by Guy Deslisle
Everyday life in the city that serves as a communist country's main trading post with the capitalist West Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Pyongyang by Guy Delisle
Kim Il-Sung is the Eternal Leader of North Korea, whose death ten years ago still can't stop him from holding the presidency Read more »| 12 Dec 2006
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Nobody Likes You by Marc Spitz.
A kind of 'My First Rock Biography' for the youthful audience it is obviously aimed at Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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Fun Home by Alison Bechdale
the cumulative impact is moving and profound - mature and graceful Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The No.2 Global Detective by Toby Clements
the story nicely parodies the work of four contemporary greats of crime writing Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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A Winter Book by Tove Jansson
Works like 'The Iceberg', are as eerie and magical as the Northern Lights. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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The Very Best of Monty Python, by 'Monty Python'
The famous cheese shop skit, with John Cleese removed, becomes just a list of types of cheese. Read more »| 12 Dec 2006 -
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 -
Features
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 -
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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