James Oswald has been hailed as the new star of Scottish noir – with a difference. The Gathering Dark is the eighth and possibly final book in the Inspector Tony McLean...
Read MoreI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree … ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by WB Yeats It started a while back when I listened,...
Read MoreA good number of authors who’ve employed series characters have written what are called in the business retrospectives – that is, stories that hark back to earlier...
Read MoreFrom time to time discussion still arises about the difference between literary and popular fiction, and their respective merits. Those of us interested in the topic...
Read MoreThis will be the last of my prison despatches – that is, columns to do with my two-months-plus time in hospital. Unlike some patients who are able to sit in their beds...
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