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Honest Alastair returns a ‘lost’ library book to Stornoway

Most of us have encountered a fine when borrowing books from our local libraries and returning them late. But the honesty of Alastair McIntosh has...

Book review – The Day She Saved the Doctor

Whatā€™s the story? To mark International Womens Day 2018, BBC Books have released Doctor Who - The Day She Saved The Doctor. Containing a quartet...
Entrance for a Red Temple No. 1, painted in 1960 by Alan Davie

Scots of note added to UK’s historical biography

Prominent Scots are among 216 contemporary individuals who have been added to the new edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB). The latest...

Musical compositions in one new volume

A major collection of James Scott Skinner's musical compositions has been compiled by fiddler Alastair Hardie. The author of The Caledonian Companion has collected 33...

Book review – A Wild Call by Martyn Murray

Whatā€™s the story? The non-fiction book follows Martyn Murray on a voyage through the Scottish Isles after his fatherā€™s death and a hunger for the...
Giles Wood and Mary Killen from Gogglebox

Dame Judi Dench to headline Boswell Book Festival

Dame Judi Dench will headline Scotland's biography and memoir festival. Running at Dumfries House, in East Ayrshire, the eighth Boswell Book Festival will host a...


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