There are few things better than discovering a new writer who fills a gap in your life and on your bookshelves that you hadn’t realised...

In the latest podcast, Ali and Ian met up with writer Douglas Skelton, initially to talk about his Dominic Queste novels, The Dead Don’t...

If you didn’t know that Robert Crawford, the editor of The Book Of Iona: An Anthology, was one of the foremost academics in the field of...

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...

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...

Martin St John was on tambourine and psychedelic vibes for the newly formed Primal Scream between 1984 and ’87, and the book relates the...

In the latest podcast Ali talks to Jim and Pat Byrne and Samina Chaudry about Ten Writers Telling Lies ,  a music and literary project...

I write this review the day a general election has been called, one which promises further division and increasingly extreme reactions to...

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...