BOOKS

The Good Books, Philip Miller: ‘I might set fire to my terrible poems in a cleansing ritual’
The journalist and civil servant Philip Miller on growing up reading comics and writing poetry. The first book I remember reading: The old Ladybird...

Glencairn Glass: Winner and runner-up announced for crime short story competition
A sinister story about a Scottish recipe for stovies and a grisly tale about the strange sheep of Greshornish have been chosen as the winning...

The Good Books, Douglas Jackson: ‘I was bereft by the end of The Alan Rickman Diaries’
The former journalist on being encouraged to persevere by the late John Le Carre and why he always recommends the Aubrey-Maturin Napoleonic naval adventures. ...

The Good Books, Sue Lawrence: ‘I read One Day in 2011 and itās stayed with me ever since’
The leading food writer on being inspired by Maggie OāFarrell, how One Day by David Nicholls has stayed with her for more than a decade,...