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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 ReviewsKilltopia by Dave Cook, Craig Paton
Killtopia is an electrifying trip, perfectly told by Dave Cook's writing and Craig Paton's illustrations. Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
Book ReviewsSlip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
True to its title from beginning to end, few novels achieve the delicate shimmer Amy Arnold's poetic prose evokes in the mind. Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
Book ReviewsCrocodile by Daniel Shand
The new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Daniel Shand explores the loss of childhood innocence. Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
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Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen
Engaging themes are are given only a surface level brush in Niviaq Korneliussen's unsatisfying debut novel Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
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In Miniature by Simon Garfield
An intriguing look at the world, shrunk down Read more »| 26 Oct 2018 -
Features
Dead Ink Books on the Eden Book Society
With Halloween in the air, we ventured into the history of the Eden Book Society, the horror novella subscription whose story is more mysterious than meets the eye Read more »| 23 Oct 2018
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News
Scottish Poetry News – October 2018
This month, National Poetry Day returns with a host of events and the final collection of verse from Leonard Cohen is published Read more »| 02 Oct 2018 -
Book Reviews
Resistance by Julian Fuks
Here is a novel of considerable weight and brimming with human insight. Read more »| 02 Oct 2018 -
Book ReviewsKill 'Em All by John Niven
The novel raises the question of whether satire works in the world we live in. Niven exposes how awful the people at the top are, and how grotesque their world is Read more »| 02 Oct 2018 -
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If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
When a young man learns of a limited prognosis, he doesn’t get very far into his bucket list before the devil appears to offer a trade: get rid of one thing from the world per day for an extra day of life Read more »| 02 Oct 2018 -
News
Roald Dahl’s Matilda turns 30
And to mark the occasion, the great Quentin Blake has drawn new illustrations imagining Matilda as an adult Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Features
Hanif Abdurraqib on They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us uses music and culture as a lens through which to view the world. As the book publishes in the UK, we talk to Hanif Abdurraqib about his incredible collection of essays Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Features
Want more poetry in your life? Introducing Speculative Books
Speculative Books are the new kids on the indie publishing block and they have a poetry subscription service just for you Read more »| 01 Oct 2018 -
Book Reviews
XX by Angela Chadwick
This is Chadwick’s true strength: the ability to distil the human experience and reproduce it in print. Topical, probing and quietly intense – XX is a phenomenal debut. Read more »| 28 Sep 2018 -
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Melmoth by Sarah Perry
Melmoth is a delicious, melancholic and complex kind of darkness which pervades throughout and makes for a gripping read Read more »| 25 Sep 2018