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Kirsty Lockwood’s debut thriller is so gripping I ditched the Scottish Cup final
2+ mon, 4+ week 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…...
Review: A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1026+ words) As a critic, I love being proved wrong. I try to approach each book objectively, but sometimes it’s difficult to suppress the desire to judge early and fast. I picked up A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper and couldn’t help…...
Rethinking Alasdair Gray: A cultural, literary and feminist legacy
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (981+ words) Alasdair Gray never wanted to present himself as a lonesome artist. His collaborative relationships with fellow writers like Agnes Owens helped expand the Scottish literary canon. Now, The Alasdair Gray Archive is continuing that legacy, and Scottish culture is all…...
'At last, a Scottish police thriller with dark depths that is worth exploring"
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…...
10 books everyone will be talking about this autumn from Rachel Cusk to Val McDermid
3+ day, 21+ 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…...
Review: Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre: A welcome return
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…...
Author Julian Barnes bids us a powerful farewell, says Neil Mackay
5+ mon, 4+ week 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…...
The women who were left holding the baby by Robert Burns take centre-stage at last
1+ year, 1+ week ago (208+ words) Review: A Toast Fae the Lassies, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, is a musical which tells the story of the women who were left holding the baby by… Review: A Toast Fae the Lassies at Pitlochry is a magical musical Theatre review:…...
Edinburgh libraries shortlisted for British Book Awards 2026 Library of the Year
6+ mon, 2+ 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…...
Review: Raveheart by Graeme Armstrong: From Airdrie to dystopia
3+ mon, 3+ 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…...