1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (1819+ words) At around 10.40am my mobile pings. A text message. “I am somehow lost in Glenrothes, but won’t be long!! Gabriella.” It’s a Thursday morning in July and Bennett is lost in Glenrothes and lost to Glenrothes, perhaps. For a long time,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) Writing fiction has been a dream for national treasure Lorraine Kelly since she was four years old and living surrounded by books. She’s grown up to be credited with a fair few of her own, but this is only her…...

3+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (873+ words) I’m not a literary critic and so I’ll say only this: that I can hardly recall any previous time when a book, a first-timer at that, has demanded to be finished so urgently. Only Liam McIlvanney’s The Good Father comes…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1013+ words) Acclaimed Scottish gang-life author is back with a chaotically funny novel The Herald Review: Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong: From Airdrie to dystopia Produced by the esteemed, London-based literary journal once every decade since 1983, it has given early boosts to (and…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (161+ words) Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark James Bailey (Image: Sceptre) Running On Air by Sophie Raworth (Image: Bloomsbury Sport/PA) In her mid-forties, previously unsporty BBC presenter Sophie Raworth took inspiration from a friend…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (811+ words) If Quite Ugly One Morning was an angry book, its successor is downright furious The Herald Review: Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre: A welcome return Quite Ugly One Evening, Chris Brookmyre, (Abacus, £22) It’s been 30 years since Chris Brookmyre’s…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (378+ words) The Herald Book review: Colony by Christiana Spens is a Scottish folk horror The Colony, Christiana Spens (Salt, £10.99) Lena doesn’t know about the group’s more dysfunctional side yet, though it’s starting to feel to her “more and more like an…...

6+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (1027+ words) In what he says is his final novel, Departure(S), Julian Barnes is at his playful and brilliant best, says our Writer at Large Neil Mackay JULIAN Barnes approaches fiction like a crab stealing up on its prey: sideways. The style…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (599+ words) Pat Black’s second D.I. Lomond thriller makes the avoidance of violent death a trickier goal, by cleverly infusing modern housing developments… Review: Pat Black’s second D.I. Lomond thriller is worth exploring Jack-in-the-box, Pat Black, (Polygon, £9.99) After waving her daughter…...