Jul 1, 20203 min readDouglas Gifford (1940 – 2020)Last weekend we lost one of Scottish literature’s greatest champions. Professor Douglas Gifford was an academic who made it his life’s...
Jun 17, 20202 min readDevolution Discourse: The Scots Whay Hae! Podcast Talks To Scott Hames…For the latest SWH! podcast Ali caught up with Scott Hames, who lectures in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling. The reason...
Nov 5, 20154 min readShort & Sweet: A Review Of Janice Galloway’s Jellyfish…*Janice Galloway’s short story collection Jellyfish feels like a call to arms on at least two fronts. In the Acknowledgements she...
Oct 6, 20154 min readClaret And Anger: A Review Of Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project…It is all too rare that contemporary Scottish fiction looks to its own rich past to tell us something new. James Robertson’s The...