“January, sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me”, as Pilot sang back in 1974 – a genius lyric which just about says it all. But never...

For our Best Books of 2019 podcast Ali was once again joined by Publishing Scotland’s Vikki Reilly to have a chat about their year in...

I know there are plenty of ‘Books Of The Year’ lists around this time competing for your time and attention, but we like to think that...

From the 10th – 26th August, Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square Gardens (and George Street) once again becomes the place for book lovers to...

From today (14th) Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Write! is the only show in town for lovers of fact, fiction, food, poetry, prose,...

It was an interesting development in Scottish writing that two of the most talked about books from the end of 2018 were published by...

Picture Credit: Robert Perry For the first podcast of 2019, Ali caught up with Peter Kelly, better known as singer/songwriter Beerjacket,...

It’s been a hell of a year for Scottish music so far, with many, many great albums (from the likes of Zoe Bestel,...