BOOKS

New book mines rich seams for historical insight
Marian Pallister tells the story of Argyll and its rich mining history in Not a Plack the Richer. Using in-depth research into official records, letters...

The true story of a life with pine martens
A Richness of Martens is a personal and heartwarming story, as Polly Pullar describes how her love of nature developed throughout a childhood spent in...

Two Wigtown books are optioned by Hollywood
This year's Wigtown Book Festival was the biggest and most successful yet ā with audiences of around 29,000. The provisional figures for the 2018 event,...

Get ready to read The Diary o a Wimpy Wean
One of the most popular children's books of the last decade is to be given a new lease of life - in Scots. Jeff Kinneyās...