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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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Book ReviewsLosing the Plot by Derek Owusu
Derek Owusu's latest is a tender, lyrical exploration of migration and parenthood Read more »| 03 Nov 2022 -
Book ReviewsIdol, Burning by Rin Usami
Rin Usami's latest novel explores the tangled, murky world of stan culture Read more »| 03 Nov 2022 -
FeaturesScottish Books News: November 2022
November sees the return of Push the Boat Out and the Radical Book Fair, as well as new poetry nights across the Central Belt and Aberdeen Read more »| 31 Oct 2022 -
FeaturesMore Fiya: The Black-British poetry collection at Push the Boat Out
We chat with some of the poets featured in More Fiya, the Black-British poetry collection that is being centred at this year's Push the Boat Out poetry festival Read more »| 31 Oct 2022 -
Book ReviewsDislocations by Sylvia Molloy
Charco Press' latest translated piece, Dislocations by the late Argentinian novelist Sylvia Molloy examines the power of memory when it is being lost Read more »| 27 Oct 2022 -
Book ReviewsX by Davey Davis
Following a sadist on the hunt for a beautiful dominatrix, X is a dark, sensuous page-turner mirroring our current geopolitical climate Read more »| 25 Oct 2022
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Book ReviewsThe Consequences by Manuel Muñoz
Manuel Muñoz's short stories of migrant farmers in 1980s California paint the American Dream as bleak, cruel and crushing Read more »| 18 Oct 2022 -
Book ReviewsMotherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
Domestic horror Motherthing is bleak, darkly funny, gag-worthy at times, and outright gross at others Read more »| 06 Oct 2022 -
FeaturesScottish Poetry News: October 2022
October kicks off with National Poetry Day, and there's plenty more workshops and collections for poetry fanatics after that Read more »| 04 Oct 2022 -
IntersectionsBlack Oot Here: The new book archiving Black Scottish history
Francesca Sobande and layla-roxanne hill, authors of the upcoming book Black Oot Here: Black Lives in Scotland, on acknowledging and archiving Black Scottish history Read more »| 03 Oct 2022 -
Book ReviewsHellSans by Ever Dundas
The dark dystopian science fiction makes a fully immersive world, and confirms Ever Dundas as a writer to treasure Read more »| 03 Oct 2022 -
FeaturesHeather Parry on Orpheus Builds a Girl
Glasgow-based writer and editor Heather Parry introduces Orpheus Builds a Girl, her hotly-anticipated debut, a chilling story of deranged infatuation, medical abuse, coercion and power Read more »| 03 Oct 2022 -
Book ReviewsSpaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite
A natural, and often painfully honest, autobiography, Stuart Braithwaite tells of his riotous journey with Mogwai, including all the emotional bumps in the road Read more »| 26 Sep 2022 -
Book ReviewsMorbid Obsessions by Alison Rumfitt, Frankie Miren
Frankie Miren (The Service) and Alison Rumfitt (Tell Me I’m Worthless) cover the intersections of anti-trans sentiment and sex work stigmatisation in this exploratory, conversational book Read more »| 22 Sep 2022 -
ArtDavid Livingstone Birthplace to host free storytelling weekend
In October, David Livingstone Birthplace museum in Blantyre will host a free weekend of storytelling by artists from the Scottish African diaspora Read more »| 16 Sep 2022