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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Features
A Christmas Book Guide
No clever title here – this is your basic guide to various books you can buy various people. Nice and simple. Read more »| 29 Nov 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Poetry Club: Neu Reekie @ SWG3, 22 November
Neu Reekie's reputation as one of Scotland's poremier spoken word events is well deserved and hard-earned, and after making a huge success of their Edinburgh events, they have begun carving out a niche for themselves in Glasgow Read more »| 26 Nov 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard
Showcasing short fiction with transgender themes, The Collection differs from its predecessors through its prioritisation of the perspectives of transgender ... Read more »| 12 Nov 2012 -
Features
Wriiters' Bloc: The Real Dead Poets' Society
A seance for writers on Halloween? Could it be? Who would dare? Writers Bloc would. Texture from Writers Bloc fills us in. Read more »| 31 Oct 2012 -
News
Books: One Whole Week of Them
Book Week Scotland will take place from 26 Nov to 2 Dec, during which time hundreds (literally hundreds) of events will take place. Some even look pretty good too. Here's a brief selection of some we like the look of Read more »| 26 Oct 2012 -
Book Reviews
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: The Best of Forty Years by Various
Books based on comedy series are often fairly cynical tie-ins, but not this one. This is the book to commemorate 40 years of Radio 4 panel game I’m Sor... Read more »| 23 Oct 2012
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Book Reviews
Recipes From the Kitchen Drawer by Helen Ashley
Helen Ashley is a freelance illustrator who loves cooking, and this book melds those two pursuits – it was this or boiling a portfolio, presumably. Thi... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
JK Rowling’s first post-Potter book is never less than readable, as expected, but it's somehow unadventurous. There’s some superficial excitement... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Raven by Lou Reed and Lorenzo Mattotti
Lou Reed meant this quite sincerely, but it’s really rather dreary, Starting its life a staged and musical tribute to the works of Poe – When i... Read more »| 22 Oct 2012 -
Book Reviews
Battleborn by Clare Vaye Watkins
Nevada is a curious place, a barometer of presidential elections - the state has an almost faultless record in voting for the winner. And whilst the gambling... Read more »| 04 Oct 2012 -
Features
Re-Releasing The Valve.
Literary journal Valve launched its debut issue in June 2011, as part of a Strathclyde University course project. It could have ended there, but the enthusiasm of the team for the project has meant that the second issue will arrive in October this year Read more »| 01 Oct 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Stone Thrower by Adam Marek
Adam Marek’s second collection of short stories, The Stone Thrower, revolves around the profound and sometimes unexplainable relationship between paren... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian's second novel, The Children's Hospital, has been published for the first time in the UK some years after its debut in the states. This is presu... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Book Reviews
The Heart Broke In by James Meek
Ritchie Shepherd is a middle-aged television producer, threatened by catastrophic gossip: an ill-thought out affair threatens to destroy everything he cla... Read more »| 25 Sep 2012 -
Book Reviews
All The Little Animals by Walker Hamilton
All The Little Animals was first published in 1968, and is something of a forgotten classic. Alan Warner’s introduction to this reissue gives a summary... Read more »| 10 Sep 2012