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Evil is just one floor away in a pacey read

Setting aside associations of Edinburgh’s cobbled streets with one ‘Boy Wizard’, Anthony O’Neill has crafted a rather more sinister reality. ‘In Edinburgh, evil is just...

Spring Fling ready to return after a two-year gap

Ninety-six artists and makers set to welcome back the public for Dumfries and Galloway’s big celebration of creativity. The full line-up  has been unveiled for...
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Opera Highlights starts its tour of Scotland

A new vaudeville-inspired Opera Highlights show takes to the roads of Scotland today, as it begins a tour of 18 local venues, including in the...

A travelogue of Britain’s most notorious climb on Skye

Simon Ingram is not alone in his fascination with the mighty Cuillin, but this breeze-block-sized tome is a veritable paean to the Skye mountain ridge...
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When The Grass Dances is a new online exhibition

Poet Valerie Gillies and artist Rebecca Marr have created a new collection that invites people to walk with them among the grasses through their online...
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Seminal Scots work given audiobook treatment

Over many years, people have asked writer Billy Kay why he had not recorded an audio version of his classic book Scots: The Mither Tongue....


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