May 310 minFully Booked: A Preview Of Aye Write 2022...From 6th – 22nd May Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Write is back with a vengeance, with something for everyone. Lovers of fact, fiction,...
Mar 111 minCrime Time: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Liam McIlvanney...For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer and academic Liam McIlvanney to talk about his latest novel The Heretic, which is a...
Sep 29, 20211 minPrivate Investigations: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Charles E. McGarry...For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Charles E. McGarry about his new novel The Mystery of the Strange Piper, the latest of...
Jul 23, 20212 minA Welcome Return: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Doug Johnstone...For the latest SWH! podcast Ali caught up with an old friend of the pod, writer and musician Doug Johnstone - the fourth time he's been a...
May 11, 20211 minScotch & Wry: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Alan Gillespie...For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Alan Gillespie whose novel debut The Mash House is out now, published with Unbound. The...
Feb 2, 20212 minRadical New Futures: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Keira Brown & Imogen Stirling...Keira Brown Imogen Stirling The latest podcast is all about the forthcoming Paisley Book Festival, and Ali spoke to co-producer Keira...
Dec 4, 20202 minThat Was The Year That Was: The Best Of 2020 Podcasts – Books (Part I)…This year was such a great one for Scottish writing that we had to split our Best Books of 2020 podcast into two parts to fit in...
Dec 3, 20208 minThe 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...
Nov 30, 20202 minObsessive & 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...
Oct 22, 20202 minSpanish 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...
Jul 17, 20203 minQuines 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...
May 28, 20202 minHead Girl: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Olga Wojtas…For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer and journalist Olga Wojtas about her novels Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar...
May 6, 20203 minDig The New Breed: A Review Of Doug Johnstone’s A Dark Matter…If only everything in life was as dependable as a Doug Johnstone novel. Over the years he has become a writer whose books you can open...
Apr 24, 20202 minThe Real McCoy: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Alan Parks…For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Alan Parks about his latest Harry McCoy thriller, Bobby March Will Live Forever. The two...
Apr 12, 20203 minThree’s A Charm: A Review Of Alan Parks’ Bobby March Will Live Forever…It can be difficult for a writer to make their mark in the crowded, thriving, marketplace that is Scottish crime fiction. Tartan Noir, as...
Apr 3, 20204 min*Loving The Alien: A Review of Martin MacInnes’ Gathering Evidence…*A version of this review first appeared on the Books From Scotland website. Head there to sign up to their newsletter and never miss an...
Mar 12, 20206 minFully Booked: A Preview Of Aye Write! 2020…*This year’s Aye Write! has been postponed. For full details go to https://www.ayewrite.com/Pages/default.aspx* From today (12th – 29th)...
Feb 20, 20204 minRebel Ink: A Preview of the Paisley Book Festival…Today (20/2/20) sees the start of the inaugural Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 29th Feb. With the theme of ‘Radical...
Jan 24, 20203 minWhat Lies Beneath: A Review Of Helen Sedgwick’s When The Dead Come Calling…The popularity of Scottish crime fiction shows no signs of slowing with new titles published weekly, Bloody Scotland becoming one of the...
Jan 9, 20203 minA Town Called Malice: A Review Of Stephen Watt’s Fairy Rock…Arguably Scotland’s two greatest literary exports are poetry and crime so it makes sense for someone to combine the two. For anyone...