The two race through many subjects, including the legacy of post-punk, the importance of the art and music of Scottish small towns and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One is The Book Of Iona, a collection edited by Professor Robert Crawford, which looks at the literary history as well as the geography...

Three Men & Some Books For our end of year podcast, Ali and Ian were once again joined by irregular podcast guest and resident film...

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...

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...

Iain Maloney risks similar strong reaction to his latest novel The Waves Burn Bright which has 1988’s Piper Alpha North Sea oil platform...

The Last Days Of Disco and The Rise & Fall Of The Miraculous Vespas and the forthcoming The Man Who Loved Islands, but the conversation...

A defining feature of 2016 has been the quality of debut fiction on offer. As November hoves into view people start to enquire as to your...

One of those questions you are asked to ponder every now and then is, “Who would you invite to your perfect dinner party”. Well, it looks...

Kellan MacInnes’ novel, The Making Of Mickey Bell, is a heart-felt missive to Scottish literature, referencing many of its best writers...

For a long time the short story collection was perceived by many readers either as a stop-gap between a writer’s novels, or a cash-in...