SWH icon.png
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • SoundCloud
  • Why Hae?

  • SWH! Podcast

  • SWH! Radio

  • Indelible Ink

  • Podcast Series

    • Glasgow Film Festival 2021
    • Glasgow Film Festival 2020
    • Scottish Opera
  • Music

    • Tracks of the Year 2021
    • Tracks of the Year 2020
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Sir Walter Scott

  • New Item

  • More

    Use tab to navigate through the menu items.

    Contact Us -  scotswhayhae@gmail.com

    Coming Around Again: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Alan Bissett…
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Coming Around Again: The SWH! Podcast Talks To Alan Bissett…

    For the latest podcast Ali caught up with writer and performer Alan Bissett, who was one of our earliest podcast guests back in 2011. That was the year of his last novel Pack Men (the SWH! review of which you can still read here) and the two catch up to talk about his first book of published prose since, the novella Lazy Susan. They discuss the character of Susie ‘Q’ Martin, the return to writing fiction, the novella as a format, the book’s inventive structure, the relationsh
    Only A Game: A Review of Alan Bissett’s Pack Men…
    • Sep 4, 2011
    • 5 min

    Only A Game: A Review of Alan Bissett’s Pack Men…

    Alan Bissett sets his novel Pack Men in Manchester on the 14th May 2008 when thousands of Rangers fans descended from Scotland to take over the city which was hosting the UEFA Cup Final. Considering the large part football, particularly the Old Firm and all the sectarian baggage that accompanies them, plays in many Scottish lives it is perhaps surprising that not more writers have dealt with the subject (Des Dillon and Alan Spence are notable exceptions). But then consider th

    © 2021 Scots Whay Hae!