The Scottish Poetry Library has published a list of the Best Scottish Poems and the online anthology is now available. Catherine Lockerbie, the former director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, has chosen the poems which feature some old favourites like Liz Lochhead, William Letford, Jenni Fagan and Michel Faber. The library publishes its list every spring with […]

First published 1977 The cover shows a detail from a drawing of Rudyard Kipling by W. Strang, in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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The books interview: the new Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry winner on learning how to be a Scottish writer and why becoming the national poet saved her life

Alan Warner is surprised when he turns a corner in his home town, and the house of his imagination is NOT there. [MORE]

Travel down the rabbit hole with Scottish author Ailish Sinclair to the reveal of the book cover for her novel THE MERMAID AND THE BEAR (out Autumn 2019).

Karl Ove Knausgård, Ocean Vuong, and Tsitsi Dangarembga to hand over manuscripts to the 100-year art project, created by Scottish artist Katie Paterson, this summer

I know: everybody loves William Wallace and Scottish history. But for me, it goes beyond fascination to serious nostalgia.

My favorite of the Dales. The Tour de France 2014 went right down this valley after coming over the Buttertubs pass out of thr photo on the right.

Most people are familiar with Victorian mourning and its strict etiquette and rules. Mourning in the Georgian Era also had rules associated

The Archives holds postcards from Karen Blixen to publisher Charles Pick, a cablegram announcing her arrival in London and press-cuttings.  Pick's memoirs describe his first meeting with Blixen in Copenhagen after the publication of ‘Anecdotes of Destiny’ (1958). He also writes of a later meeting in London and his efforts to secure champagne and oysters for Ms…

The Hidden Secrets of Bumblebee Cottage: The most uplifting, feel good novel of 2023 from the bestselling author! (Love Heart Lane, Book 10) - Kindle edition by Barlow, Christie. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Hidden Secrets of Bumblebee Cottage: The most uplifting, feel good novel of 2023 from the bestselling author! (Love Heart Lane, Book 10).

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887.

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