Lying Live & Singing True: A Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Extra – The Launch Of Ten Writers Tel
The latest podcast is a sister to our recent interview with Pat & Jim Byrne and Samina Chaudry about Ten Writers Telling Lies. It’s a...
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- May 3, 2017
- 3 min
Return Of The Craic: A Review Of Douglas Skelton’s Tag – You’re Dead…
Among the more welcome returns in 2017 is that of Glasgow detective Dominic Queste in Douglas Skelton’s new novel, Tag – You’re Dead. If...
- Apr 27, 2017
- 3 min
Shake, Rattle & Rock ‘n’ Roll: A Review Of Psychedelic Confessions of a Primal Screamer...
Martin St John was on tambourine and psychedelic vibes for the newly formed Primal Scream between 1984 and ’87, and the book relates the...
- Apr 24, 2017
- 2 min
The Art Of Deception: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks Ten Writers Telling Lies…
In the latest podcast Ali talks to Jim and Pat Byrne and Samina Chaudry about Ten Writers Telling Lies, a music and literary project...
- Apr 19, 2017
- 2 min
Future Present Tense: A Review Of Kenneth Steven’s 2020…
I write this review the day a general election has been called, one which promises further division and increasingly extreme reactions to...
- Apr 16, 2017
- 1 min
Back And Forth: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To David Keenan…
The two race through many subjects, including the legacy of post-punk, the importance of the art and music of Scottish small towns and...
- Apr 13, 2017
- 4 min
Isle Be There: A Review Of David F. Ross’s The Man Who Loved Islands…
Those who have read David F. Ross’s first two novels The Last Days Of Disco and The Rise & Fall Of The Miraculous Vespas will approach...
- Apr 7, 2017
- 5 min
Breaking Glass: A Review Of Nasty Women…
404 Ink’s collection of essays, Nasty Women, is unlike any other you’ll read this year, and probably for the foreseeable future. That in...
- Mar 29, 2017
- 4 min
Yesterday Once More: A Review Of David Keenan’s This Is Memorial Device…
What makes a cult novel is hard to define, but here goes. It will alienate as many people as it attracts. It will pitch itself against...
- Mar 9, 2017
- 4 min
The Ties That Bind: A Review Of Ajay Close’s The Daughter Of Lady Macbeth
It’s a fear of many children that they are going to grow up to be “just like your mother/father”. This is often stated as a simple...
- Mar 5, 2017
- 6 min
Literally Literary: A Preview Of Aye Write! 2017…
Here are a few selected highlights to give you something to think about, but you can peruse the full programme at your leisure here. They...
- Mar 3, 2017
- 3 min
Carter The Unstoppable Killing Machine: A Review Of Russel D. McLean’s Ed’s Dead…
It’s no spoiler to say that in Ed’s Dead, Ed dies. He is Jen’s boyfriend, a man who is at one-moment keen to seem her knight in shining...
- Jan 30, 2017
- 3 min
Speak Like A Child: A Review of Ross Sayers’ Mary’s The Name…
Kieron Smith, boy, Anne Donovan’s Buddha Da, Alan Bissett’s The Incredible Adam Spark, Des Dillon’s Me & Ma Gal, and Helen MacKinven’s...
- Jan 9, 2017
- 3 min
Devil’s Advocate: A Review Of Neil Broadfoot’s All The Devils…
The last few years have seen a real development in the breadth of what I’m going to loosely call Scottish crime fiction. A genre which...
- Jan 5, 2017
- 3 min
Prestige & Prejudice: A Review Of Kevin MacNeil’s The Brilliant & Forever…*
With wall-to-wall media coverage, including prime-time TV shows detailing the runners and riders as well as the result, it can be argued...
- Dec 23, 2016
- 2 min
Poetry, Prose & Parasols: A Review Of Umbrellas Of Edinburgh…
One is The Book Of Iona, a collection edited by Professor Robert Crawford, which looks at the literary history as well as the geography...
- Dec 16, 2016
- 1 min
That Was The Year That Was: It’s The Best Of 2016 Podcast – Part One…
Three Men & Some Books For our end of year podcast, Ali and Ian were once again joined by irregular podcast guest and resident film...
- Dec 4, 2016
- 5 min
The Good Word: Scots Whay Hae!’s Best Books Of 2016…
It’s the time for ‘Books Of The Year’ lists and we like to think that Scots Whay Hae!’s selection for 2016, while small, is beautifully...
- Nov 16, 2016
- 3 min
Brace Yourself: A Review Of Doug Johnstone’s Crash Land…
There are few things I look forward to more than a new Doug Johnstone novel. Over the last decade, beginning with 2006’s Tombstoning, he...
- Nov 10, 2016
- 2 min
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: *A Review Of Iain Maloney’s The Waves Burns Bright…
Iain Maloney risks similar strong reaction to his latest novel The Waves Burn Bright which has 1988’s Piper Alpha North Sea oil platform...
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