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

This Thursday (16-02-2023) sees the start of this year’s Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 26th Feb. With the theme of...

This is the second of our Best Books of 2022 podcasts, with Ali once again joined by Publishing Scotland's Vikki Reilly, and in this...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer N.E. Solomons about her debut thriller The Bone Road, which is published by Polygon...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Denzil Meyrick to talk about the publication of The Death of Remembrance, the 10th in the...

From 6th – 22nd May Glasgow’s Book Festival Aye Write is back with a vengeance, with something for everyone. Lovers of fact, fiction,...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer and academic Liam McIlvanney to talk about his latest novel The Heretic, which is a...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Charles E. McGarry about his new novel The Mystery of the Strange Piper, the latest of...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali caught up with an old friend of the pod, writer and musician Doug Johnstone - the fourth time he's been a...

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

Keira Brown Imogen Stirling The latest podcast is all about the forthcoming Paisley Book Festival, and Ali spoke to co-producer Keira...

This year was such a great one for Scottish writing that we had to split our Best Books of 2020 podcast into two parts to fit in...

There are plenty of ‘Books Of The Year’ lists around this time competing for your time and attention, but we like to think that Scots...

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...

Over the years I have spent more than a few holidays in that part of Southern Spain which stretches from Malaga to Puerto Banus, an area...

Successful long-running series have a fine balancing act to pull off. Each book should work as a standalone read, with a plot which has a...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer and journalist Olga Wojtas about her novels Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar...

If only everything in life was as dependable as a Doug Johnstone novel. Over the years he has become a writer whose books you can open...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to writer Alan Parks about his latest Harry McCoy thriller, Bobby March Will Live Forever. The two...

It can be difficult for a writer to make their mark in the crowded, thriving, marketplace that is Scottish crime fiction. Tartan Noir, as...