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    Fringe Benefits: Scots Whay Hae!’s Top 10 Picks Of The Edinburgh Fringe…
    • Aug 3, 2018
    • 4 min

    Fringe Benefits: Scots Whay Hae!’s Top 10 Picks Of The Edinburgh Fringe…

    This Script and Other Drafts (Jenny Lindsay), Aug 13-14, 21-22 – Scottish Storytelling Centre At a time of schisms within feminism, ongoing revelations of #MeToo, endless discussions about womanhood, and sirens being the soundtrack to our newsfeeds, Jenny Lindsay found herself getting a bit angry in 2017… Putting that anger to work she wrote a series of univocal poems, invented a superhero on her period, explored the rifts within feminism, set up a date with capitalism and p
    You Have Been Watching…T2 Trainspotting
    • Feb 3, 2017
    • 4 min

    You Have Been Watching…T2 Trainspotting

    The sweat wis lashing oafy this boy. Was T2 Trainspotting a terrible idea, destined to disappoint and lessen the memory of seeing the original on its day of release in 1996, emerging blinking from a cinema thinking someone had made a film for me and mine? As soon as the credits roll, with Mark Renton pounding the virtual pavement of an Amsterdam running machine, interspersed with clips of Johan Cruyff showing that anything Archie Gemmill could do he could do better, it’s clea
    Into The Valley: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talk To Pauline Lynch…
    • Aug 4, 2016
    • 1 min

    Into The Valley: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talk To Pauline Lynch…

    It’s a terrific read and the two talk about it at length. For a debut novel from a Scottish writer it is unusual in being set outside of Scotland, in this case in Texas, a decision which was to prove a wise one when it came to research. Pauline talks in detail about how Armadillos grew from a single idea to become one of the best books of the year. But don’t take our word for it – it’s now included on the long list for The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, so someone must agre
    There’s No Place Like Home: A Review Of P.K. Lynch’s Armadillos
    • Jul 23, 2016
    • 4 min

    There’s No Place Like Home: A Review Of P.K. Lynch’s Armadillos

    *You can listen to P.K. Lynch talking about Armadillos on the Scots Whay Hae! Podcast by clicking here… In our recent podcast with novelist Iain Maloney we spoke about a writer’s responsibility when tackling certain subjects. In Maloney’s case, his novel The Waves Burn Bright deals with events surrounding the Piper Alpha North Sea Oil Platform tragedy, and he talked about the importance of making sure his research was thorough and his prose unsensational so as to avoid any po

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