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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Book ReviewsThe Parcel by Anosh Irani
Indian-Canadian novelist Anosh Irani's latest book delves into the world of India's transgender community Read more »| 10 Oct 2017 -
EventsDundee Literary Festival: A city on & off the page
With the Dundee Literary Festival now just a whisker away, The Skinny tracked down organiser Peggy Hughes to pick her brains on the programme, the city and the role of literature in today’s modern world Read more »| 09 Oct 2017 -
Events
Dundee Literary Festival 2017: Our highlights
As Dundee Literary Festival announces a typically strong programme, we pick our personal highlights that combine the city's literary history with big name authors such as Graeme Macrae Burnet and Andrew O'Hagan Read more »| 06 Oct 2017 -
Book Reviews
Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
At points Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay's new novel is remarkably effective, but at times its style feels overly laboured Read more »| 06 Oct 2017 -
Book Reviews
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
An insightful but sometimes oversimplified look at the writing of 1984. Read more »| 06 Oct 2017 -
NewsCold Turkey feat. Scott Hutchison & Hollie McNish set for Summerhall
Cold Turkey brings together Neu! Reekie!'s Michael Pedersen with poet Hollie McNish and musicians Scott Hutchison and Withered Hand Read more »| 06 Oct 2017
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Book ReviewsGrace by Paul Lynch
Imagine Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses and L M Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables merged and you have the new novel from Paul Lynch Read more »| 05 Oct 2017 -
Features
Siri Hustvedt on the gendered gaze in art
Siri Hustvedt's collection of essays on art, sex and the mind is now out in paperback, so we catch up with the highly respected writer to engage with the key themes of A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women Read more »| 05 Oct 2017 -
Book Reviews
The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie turns his trademark style to the age of Twitter, Trump and identity politics in The Golden House Read more »| 28 Sep 2017 -
NewsFancy joining Scotland's national quidditch team?
Scotland’s first ever national quidditch team, the Scottish Thistles, will compete in the 2018 Quidditch Premier League! Read more »| 22 Sep 2017 -
Features
Clemens Meyer & Jenny Erpenbeck on the German Novel
While their own broadsheet culture pages may often claim that The German novel is dead, The Skinny speaks to the exciting and experimental authors Clemens Meyer and Jenny Erpenbeck to find out how they are disproving this theory Read more »| 18 Sep 2017 -
Book Reviews
The Readymade Thief by Augustus Rose
The stakes are low and the quality lower in Augustus Rose's trudge of a debut novel Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Book Reviews
H(A)PPY by Nicola Barker
Nicola Barker's new novel is somehow altogether chilling and inspiring Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Book Reviews
The City Always Wins by Omar Robert Hamilton
A raw, powerful and relentlessly bleak look at the Egyptian political crisis Read more »| 15 Sep 2017 -
Features
Sabrina Mahfouz & Iona Lee on women in poetry
National Poetry Day is on 28 September, with the 2017 theme of Freedom. The perfect opportunity then to speak with Iona Lee and Sabrina Mahfouz about the increasing volume of women's voices in the poetry scene Read more »| 14 Sep 2017