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

For the latest SWH! podcast Ali caught up with Scott Hames, who lectures in Scottish Literature at the University of Stirling. The reason...

*Janice Galloway’s short story collection Jellyfish feels like  a call to arms on at least two fronts. In the Acknowledgements she...

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