For our first video podcast (or vodcast as no one is calling it) in some time, SWH! made a welcome trip Doon the Watter to Dunoon Burgh...

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali spoke to singer/songwriter, composer, and arranger Debra Salem about In A Sma Room, the musical project...

Every so often a short story or prose collection comes along which helps to define the period in Scottish literature. In the 1980s there...

For the latest SWH! Podcast Ali spoke to rapper, poet, songwriter, and producer, Dave Hook (better known to many as Solareye). The two...

This Thursday (18-02-2021) sees the start of this year’s Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 27th Feb. With the theme of...

A wee bonus SWH! podcast for the end of the year… Earlier this year we recorded podcasts with Ali and his brother Andy (right) where they...

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...

For the latest podcast Ali spoke to author, poet, and academic Mandy Haggith about The Lyre Dancers, the third and final novel of the...

Last weekend we lost one of Scottish literature’s greatest champions. Professor Douglas Gifford was an academic who made it his life’s...

A version of this article first appeared on the Books From Scotland website. Head there to sign up to their newsletter and never miss an...

Today (20/2/20) sees the start of the inaugural Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 29th Feb. With the theme of ‘Radical...

Arguably Scotland’s two greatest literary exports are poetry and crime so it makes sense for someone to combine the two. For anyone...

For our Best Books of 2019 podcast Ali was once again joined by Publishing Scotland’s Vikki Reilly to have a chat about their year in...

For the latest podcast Ali headed to Glasgow’s Tron Theatre to talk to poet and polymath Kevin P. Gilday about his Edinburgh Fringe show...

For the latest podcast Ali spoke to the poet Nadine Aisha Jassat about her new collection of poems, Let Me Tell You This. It starts with...

Sunday afternoons – for some of us they’ve never been the same since Archie McPherson, Glen Michael and Palladin hung up their boots....

Tom Leonard 1944 – 2018 Back in 1986 I visited Glasgow’s Caledonia Books on Great Western Road and it changed my life. I had recently...

There are regularly heated discussions about the worth of prizes in art and culture. Recently announced, the Scottish Album of the Year...

The first book of Allan Massie’s I read was his historical novel Augustus (I think in the late ’80s) and it made a deep impression on me....

For the latest podcast, Ali headed to Edinburgh to talk to poet, writer and musician, Andrew Greig. The first topic of conversation is...