Add to this the (fictional?) liner notes which accompanied the early releases, and you couldn’t shake the feeling that this was a band...

Once again Mr Scott raises a bottle to see out the old year and ring in the new and that means it’s time for Scots Whay Hae!’s annual New...

Willie, Chris, Wesley and Ali For our “Best of 2015” podcast, Ian and Ali were joined by regular pod guest, Chris Ward, and Scottish...

Graeme Macrae Burnet & Graham Lironi In the latest podcast, Ali talks to writers Graham Lironi and Graeme Macrae Burnet about their...

It can be argued, and I would, that William McIlvanney was one of the most influential Scottish writers of recent times. This is partly...

You may have had your fill already of ‘Books Of The Year’ lists already, but we like to think that Scots Whay Hae’s selection is small,...

Undoubtedly a contender for the best Scottish film of 2015 is Robert Carlyle’s The Legend Of Barney Thomson. Scots Whay Hae! said as much...

The latest podcast sees Ali in conversation with writer and journalist Kirstin Innes. The primary reason was to discuss her terrific...

Bright Stars is a book which welcomes you in and makes you feel like you belong, as if you are involved and invested in the unfolding...

There have been some rather sniffy reviews about the film version of John Niven’s novel Kill Your Friends (and you can take that as a pun...

*Janice Galloway’s short story collection Jellyfish feels like a call to arms on at least two fronts. In the Acknowledgements she...

The talk touches upon the astonishing rise and fall of Detroit and the city’s links with Scotland, Berry Gordy’s business model, the...

It is all too rare that contemporary Scottish fiction looks to its own rich past to tell us something new. James Robertson’s The...

The novel opens with Susan Pherson spotting her recently deceased Dad walking on Argyle Street before seeing him entering a building...

What you may not know is that his first love, above all of the above, is soul music. This passion is behind his recently published book,...

Macwhirter’s 2013 book Road to Referendum looked at the historic and cultural background to 2014’s historic vote, and his...

Johnstone is one of the best thriller writers around, with a style which is deliberately lean and plot driven. The For anyone interested...

Seven novels in and it seems like Doug Johnstone’s writing is developing two distinct strands. There’s the fast paced, pulp fiction of...

Let’s start with the source material. The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson was the first of many Barney Thomson related books Lindsay...

Last year, in a review of Cathy McSporran’s novel Cold City for Gutter magazine, I suggested that, “There are just not enough great...