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Muckle Flugga is a fantastical novel, more resembling an Alasdair Gray novel. Like Gray, Pederson is not solely a writer of prose; he is also a poet, […] the prose is often beautiful and lyrical. Read more
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The rabbits and pheasants from the forests are for the stew, the salmon taken from the rivers is likewise for the table, and the whisky is for weddings and celebrations. It is for their community, and none of it is for selling, not for profit nor for making someone else rich. Read more
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The passion and beat of the lines are like the thunderous clapping of a chanting crowd. 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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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
Iain Mac Lachlainn 