Last Walk
The wave came at Michaelmas with a full moon and a spring tide. After that our land was soured and we knew. Now I shut the door and say to the dog ‘Last time.’ Paths criss-cross the marram. It’s early...
View ArticleBella, for Christmas
Looking for the ideal gift for the special one in your life? Look no longer. Bella’s anthology of some of the best writing of the past fifteen years is the perfect winter read, an eclectic mix of...
View Article“If you don’t go away you can’t come back”: Rediscovering the writing of Alan...
“If you don’t go away you can’t come back”: Rediscovering the writing of Alan Sharp. The Anti-hero’s Journey, The Work and Life of Alan Sharp, David Manderson, Peter Lang. Reviewed by Eleanor Thom...
View ArticleBella Caledonia Anthology
There’s only a box of the second print run of our anthology of fourteen years of writing left. It takes the form of blogs, rants, poetry, reviews, and long-form essays – all a creative mess of...
View ArticleAlasdair Gray on Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos’s adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel Poor Things (1992) has won the Golden Lion at the 2023 Biennale di Venezia. In a series of recordings made in the last year of his life, Alasdair...
View ArticleIrish Pages, Literary Ambitions
The Irish Pages Press ‘publishing outstanding books in English, Irish and Scots’ goes from strength to strength. As well as celebrating this revival (and concentrating on a few of its recent...
View ArticleYou Are Not Literature
Novelist Lana Bastašić’s blazing response to yet another act of censorship from German literary organisations and festival organisers has been viewed by many as both brutally articulate and also...
View ArticleBeing Bella Baxter
BEING BELLA BAXTER: by Johnny Rodger a clash of worldviews in book and film I once spent a week in Paris with Alasdair Gray and Carl MacDougall, another Scottish writer. They were of the same...
View ArticleJames Kelman on Self Determination
James Kelman talking at the 17th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair.
View ArticleDoppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein delves into the ‘mirror world’ in a beautifully insightful view of the weird world we inhabit, with its binary politics and wild conspiracism.
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