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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FeaturesStirred Poetry on new writing & feminism
The Skinny talks to Manchester poetry collective Stirred Poetry about new writing, equality and speaking out Read more »| 10 Sep 2015 -
Book ReviewsWaiting for the Past by Les Murray
Les Murray's new short story collection is sumptuously satisfying for the patient reader. Read more »| 09 Sep 2015 -
Features
Bloody Scotland: The Case of the Book Festival
Russel D. McLean investigate Bloody Scotland, the annual gathering of our finest criminal authors. Read more »| 06 Sep 2015 -
Features
Poetry News: Bard is a Four-Letter Word
StAnza poet in residence Clare Mulley contemplates beginnings in her first poetry column. Read more »| 02 Sep 2015 -
Book Reviews
The Seed Beneath the Snow by Joanna Ramsey
With The Seed Beneath the Snow, Joanna Ramsey chronicles the later years of George Mackay Brown. Read more »| 01 Sep 2015 -
Events
Northwest Book Highlights – September 2015
Controversial and political figures hit Manchester and Liverpool as Richard Dawkins and Margaret Atwood come to town, while Gladfest invites audiences to share their own opinions Read more »| 01 Sep 2015
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Festivals
Hyeonseo Lee @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 30 Aug
Hyeonseo Lee, North Korean Defector and author of The Girl With Seven Names, at the Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Book ReviewsWind/Pinball: Two Novels by Haruki Murakami
With Wind/Pinball, Japanese author Haruki Murakami finally grants his first two novels a UK release. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
George the Poet @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 21 Aug
George the Poet on spoken word, traditional poetry and his personal history at the Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
FeaturesOscar Coop-Phane: Feeling so Bohemian
Oscar Coop-Phane talks about new novel Tomorrow, Berlin and the dark experiences which birthed it. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Edinburgh Book Festival: Yuri Herrera & Julia Rochester
First Book Award nominees Yuri Herrera and Julia Rochester come to the Edinburgh Book Festival. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
A L Kennedy @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 18 Aug
Author A L Kennedy discusses her new novel Serious Sweet, and contributing to the Doctor Who canon with The Droston's Curse Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Features
Stieg Larsson, the Publisher and the Hornet's Nest
The new Stieg Larsson Millennium novel – The Girl in the Spider's Web – is already causing a storm, just not in the way its publisher wanted. Read more »| 31 Aug 2015 -
Festivals
Hermione Lee @ Edinburgh Book Festival, 20 Aug
Hermione Lee discusses archivists, Virginia Woolf and Penelope Fitzgerald at the Book Festival. Read more »| 28 Aug 2015 -
Book Reviews
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
‘I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter,’ wrote Charles Bukowski in late 1960. But he was only just getting going: the letters ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2015