Moving from Spring to Autumn - running from 6th to 16th November - Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Write offers something for everyone. Lovers of fact, fiction, poetry, prose, autobiography, biography, crime (real and fictional), memoir, music, food, and any other form of writing that takes your fancy, are all well catered for. The festival is mostly split between the Mitchell Library and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall with plenty of guests from home and abroad, perfectly suiting

For the latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast Ali spoke to crime writer Marion Todd to learn all about Dead Man's Shoes (published by Canelo ), the latest in the DI Clare Mackay series of thrillers. Marion talks about the challenges in, and advantages to, writing a long-running series ( Dead Man's Shoes is the ninth entry) before giving a spoiler-free breakdown of the novel, explains what comes first - plot or people - and the difficulties in hitting that balance between cosy an

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali was joined once again by writer and journalist Peter Ross to talk about his latest book Steeple Chasing:...

From 19th – 28th May Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Write is back - bigger and better, with something for everyone. Lovers of fact, fiction,...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Alan Gillespie whose novel debut The Mash House is out now, published with Unbound. The...