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The book gives testament to the bravery of ordinary men and women […] who stood up to face legal threat and military violence in the face of famine and destitution. Read more
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‘This Is What You Get’ was named Scots Book o the Year 2025, at a ceremony in Dundee on the 6th of September Read more
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A Scotland-wide divide becomes apparent in the chipper. Read more
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writing has to be honest, and that genuine emotion has to come from the writer Read more
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It wasn’t just the Scots in which Irvine Welsh delivered Trainspotting and subsequent novels, it was the colloquial mannerisms, the vernacular of a demographic in a certain time and place. Read more
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Sometimes, when you hear a new song on the radio, you instantly recognise the guitar. Even if you’ve never heard the song before, you know the guitarist from the unique sound of their telecaster or from the way that they are picking the strings. Read more
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I can’t think of a more obvious way to be inspired to write than to love reading. Even if you have a story to tell, you must still need inspiration of how to tell that story? My mother encouraged me to read, and read I did. I love to read, I read every day and… Read more
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by Victor Hugo I only got round to reading this last year, at the age of fifty-two. Part of me wishes I had read it earlier, but then, on the other hand, there are many books that I wish I could read again for the first time so I’m glad I saved this one till… Read more
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by Richard Powers This is an engaging and frightening novel about forests and the price that some people are willing to pay to bring attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding on our planet. The novel is structured in such a way that we are introduced to (the ‘Roots’ of) a handful of diverse characters… Read more
Iain Mac Lachlainn 