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TSS on TSS: Scottish Short Stories (and Poems)
T(he) S(hort) S(tory) on T(he) S(unday) S(alon) Short stories make excellent travelling companions. They’re ideal for those 20 minute snatches between whatever went before and whatever’s … more →
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TSS on TSS: Scottish Short Stories (and Poems)
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 month ago: T(he) S(hort) S(tory) on T(he) S(unday) S(alon) Short stories make excellent travelling companions. … more →
Arts Review: Elph versus Burns.
tychy wrote 2 months ago: This morning I went to have a look at the Elph versus Burns show at the Henderson Restaurant’s art g … more →
Fleck - Alasdair Gray
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lizzysiddal wrote 4 months ago: What motivates a “a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian” (the … more →
A New Voice For Canongate Wall
elizabethgorrie wrote 4 months ago: The Canongate Wall courtesy of wikimedia By Elizabeth Gorrie A new quotation is to be added to the C … more →
A Cool Head
profmike wrote 4 months ago: This new story from Ian Rankin is published as part of the ‘Quick Reads’ initiative, a W … more →
TSS: A Day and Another Night Out With Oor Rabbie
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lizzysiddal wrote 5 months ago: A week’s holiday at the end of the January commemorating Burns’s 250th can lead only to … more →
A Burns Night escapade.
tychy wrote 5 months ago: Whilst Robert Burns is famed throughout the world as Scotland’s most distinguished tax collector, fe … more →
Violets and Strawberries in The Snow - Sheena MacKay
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lizzysiddal wrote 6 months ago: Extracted from The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories To complete my last reading challenge of 2 … more →
Detalj.
Andrew Babb wrote 7 months ago: Began reading Tacitus’ Annals about a week ago. Didn’t work out so well. My brain can … more →
Romanno Bridge - Andrew Greig
lizzysiddal wrote 11 months ago: Sassenachs like myself can sometimes feel a trifle uncomfortable north of Carlisle. Like the time, … more →
A-Z Shorter Fiction: C is for Cleave (edited by Sharon Blackie)
lizzysiddal wrote 11 months ago: or should that be W for Women, S for Scottish or even N for non-fiction? I’m as confused about … more →
Glister - John Burnside
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: With eleven collections of poetry under his belt, including The Asylum Dance, which won the 2000 Whi … more →
Being Emily - Anne Donovan
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: Courtesy of Canongate via Anne Donovan’s debut novel, Buddha Da, was both critically acclaim … more →
The Tenderness of Wolves
profmike wrote 1 year ago: The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney was one of the successes of 2006, when it won the Costa Priz … more →
The Last Bear by Mandy Haggith
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marygm wrote 1 year ago: Part of Scottish Literature Week The Last Bear, Mandy Haggith’s debut novel, is set 1000 years … more →
Interview with Doug Johnstone
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rosyb wrote 1 year ago: Part of Scottish Literature Week: Writer, musician, journalist and…umm…ex-nuclear physic … more →
Sunday Salon (17.02.08) Out of Sorts
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: Well, the week went belly-up last Sunday when I lost my broadband connection. I couldn’t get … more →
Sunday Salon (10.02.08) ..... on a Monday
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: I’m normally extremely punctual and so I apologise for turning up late to this particular part … more →
Sunday Salon
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lizzysiddal wrote 1 year ago: I do love the idea of the Sunday Salon and, even more so, the idea of having nothing better to do o … more →
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