4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (255+ words) Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Image: Getty) Chatto & Windus, £18.99 Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War (Image: Jonathan Cape) Arts journalist and classicist, Charlotte Higgins first visited Ukraine in 2022, a few months into the war, and has since returned…...

1+ mon, 6+ 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, 21+ 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…...

4+ mon, 10+ hour 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+ 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…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (319+ words) Two Edinburgh libraries are finalists in The British Book Awards. Craigmillar and Oxgangs libraries have been shortlisted for the British Book Awards 2026 Library of the Year title. Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judges for The…...