The novella is a form of writing which has fallen out of favour in recent times, and that’s as bewildering as it is unfortunate. We are...

In the latest podcast, Ali and Ian met up with writer Douglas Skelton, initially to talk about his Dominic Queste novels, The Dead Don’t...

Among the more welcome returns in 2017 is that of Glasgow detective Dominic Queste in Douglas Skelton’s new novel, Tag – You’re Dead. If...

I write this review the day a general election has been called, one which promises further division and increasingly extreme reactions to...

It’s no spoiler to say that in Ed’s Dead, Ed dies. He is Jen’s boyfriend, a man who is at one-moment keen to seem her knight in shining...

It’s a fascinating book which looks at a story rarely told, and Catherine talks in detail about how she approached the not inconsiderable...

The last few years have seen a real development in the breadth of what I’m going to loosely call Scottish crime fiction. A genre which...

If this subject interests you, you can still listen to the full podcast here,  but the short version is this; on the one hand, if you can...

It is all too rare that contemporary Scottish fiction looks to its own rich past to tell us something new. James Robertson’s The...

When Scots Whay Hae! reviewed James Robertson’s And The Land Lay Still it was noted that Scotland hadn’t produced enough epic literature...