Bullies in the mist ‘The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop: A Grotesque Mystery of Fife’ by Tom Hubbard (Grace Note Publications) Tom Hubbard is a remarkable Scottish author. Best known…
‘The Book of Iona, An Anthology’, edited by Robert Crawford (Polygon) ‘Glasgow The Autobiography’, edited by Alan Taylor (Birlinn) These books appear to have a great deal in common. Both,…
In the wake of Brexit the future of the British economy may remain uncertain, but within our cultural life at least one development seems to be booming as never before….
9 February 2022 Home Become a Friend ‘Archipelago, A Reader’, edited by Nicolas Allen and Fiona Stafford (published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin) This is both a lengthy and weighty…
CULTURE Birth of an anthem Books: Andrew Hook ‘That Guy Fae the Corries’, by Robert Browne (Sandstone Press) On the last page of his book Robert Browne writes that he…
Last month, 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were fatally shot in Uvalde, a small town in Texas. Reporting on the angry reactions in America, a BBC newsreader referred to the…
‘Archipelago, A Reader’, edited by Nicolas Allen and Fiona Stafford (published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin) This is both a lengthy and weighty volume. But its 578 pages are full…
‘The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century’, edited by Leith Davis and Janet Sorenson (published by Scottish Literature International) This collection of essays was published in…
CULTURE The loser who won Books: Andrew Hook Drawing by Bob Smith ‘The Dream Shall Never Die, 100 Days That Changed Scotland Forever’, by Alex Salmond (William Collins ) Alex…
‘Slaves and Highlanders, Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean’, by David Alston (published by Edinburgh University Press) This is an excellent example of a scholarly book: detailed, well-documented, judicious,…