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 versions elsewhere – see bottom of the review*) and offering suggestions as to what to get the book lover in your life. Scottish literature has a long and distinguished tradition where the psychological meets the supernatural. From James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in the 19th century, through the early 20th century writing of J.M. Barrie

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 versions elsewhere – see bottom of the review*) and offering suggestions as to what to get the book lover in your life. Peter Ross’s previous books, Daunderlust: Dispatches from Unreported Scotland and The Passion of Harry Bingo: Further Dispatches from Unreported Scotland collected examples of his journalism and through it a picture of a Sco