The Good Word: SWH!’s 10 Best Books Of 2020…
There are plenty of ‘Books Of The Year’ lists around this time competing for your time and attention, but we like to think that Scots...
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- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
Young Guns: A Review Of Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies…
With Christmas hoving into view, we’ll be posting reviews of some of the best books of 2020, (a few of which have appeared in different...
- Nov 30, 2020
- 2 min
Obsessive & Compulsive: A Review Of Tom Gillespie’s The Strange Book Of Jacob Boyce…
With Christmas hoving into view, we’ll be posting reviews of some of the best books of 2020, (a few of which have appeared in different...
- Nov 27, 2020
- 3 min
Daydream Believer: A Review Of Stewart Ennis’s Blessed Assurance…
With Christmas hoving into view, we’ll be posting reviews of some of the best books of 2020, (a few of which have appeared in different...
- Nov 25, 2020
- 2 min
Ballads For The Bereaved: A Review of Peter Ross’s A Tomb With A View…
With Christmas hoving into view, we’ll be posting reviews of some of the best books of 2020, (a few of which have appeared in different...
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
Real Life Story: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Angela Hughes & Paul Docherty…
For the latest podcast Ali spoke to writer Angela Hughes and husband Paul about her memoir My Heart’s Content: A Journey to Transplant....
- Oct 23, 2020
- 1 min
The Big Scottish Book Club: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Damian Barr…
For the latest podcast Ali caught up with writer and presenter Damian Barr to talk all about the second series of The Big Scottish Book...
- Oct 22, 2020
- 2 min
Spanish Fly: A Review Of Morgan Cry’s Thirty-One Bones…
Over the years I have spent more than a few holidays in that part of Southern Spain which stretches from Malaga to Puerto Banus, an area...
- Oct 20, 2020
- 2 min
The Sensual World: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Jenny Sturgeon…
Image credit: Anne Campbell For the latest SWH! Podcast Ali spoke to Jenny Sturgeon about her latest project The Living Mountain, which...
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Intimate Voice: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Graeme Armstrong…
Pic Credit – Robin Farquhar-Thomson For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Graeme Armstrong about his novel The Young Team and a...
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
A Matter Of Death & Life: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Peter Ross…
For the latest SWH! podcast Ali was joined by writer and journalist Peter Ross to talk about his latest book A Tomb With A View. It was...
- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
Talk The Walk: The SWH! Podcast Talks To John Scott…
For the latest podcast Ali spoke to writer John Scott about his re-published memoir To The Woods: A Journey Along The Appalachian Trail,...
- Aug 18, 2020
- 3 min
Growing Up: A Review Of Graeme Armstrong’s The Young Team…
A Scottish novel where pals who have known each other from school fight, drink, and take drugs together, with a central character who...
- Aug 14, 2020
- 5 min
The Write Stuff: Scots Whay Hae!’s Top 10 Picks Of The Edinburgh International Book Festival…
Usually for SWH! August means Edinburgh, and especially the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Of course this year there will be no...
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Holding Court: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Kirstin Innes…
Pic credit: Becky Duncan For the latest podcast Ali spoke to writer Kirstin Innes about her acclaimed novel Scabby Queen. The two discuss...
- Aug 9, 2020
- 3 min
This Woman’s Work: A Review Of Kirstin Innes’s Scabby Queen…
To call Kirstin Innes’s Scabby Queen one of the most eagerly awaited novels of 2020 is a sizeable understatement. She had the not...
- Jul 22, 2020
- 3 min
Lost & Found: A Review Of Elisabeth Gifford’s The Lost Lights Of St Kilda…
The story of life on, and the leaving of, St Kilda is one which has been told in a number of different ways over the years. There have...
- Jul 21, 2020
- 2 min
Tales Of The Unexpected: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Tom Gillespie…
For the latest podcast Ali spoke to the writer Tom Gillespie about The Strange Book of Jacob Boyce, which is published today (21st July,...
- Jul 17, 2020
- 3 min
Quines Of Crime: A Review Of Claire MacLeary’s Payback…
Successful long-running series have a fine balancing act to pull off. Each book should work as a standalone read, with a plot which has a...
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
Telling Stories: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Reyah Martin…
For the latest podcast Ali spoke to writer Reyah Martin, who was the winner of the Canada & Europe region of the 2020 Commonwealth Short...
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