Culture
Scots star Alan Cumming honoured with doctorate
He’s the global actor, author and activist with an eclectic and electrifying career. Alan Cumming, the Scots-born superstar of stage and screen – and much...
Beautiful music in beautiful places at Lammermuir Festival
This year’s Lammermuir Festival returns to live performance with 14 days of 37 concerts at eight venues across East Lothian. The festival runs from September...
A crime thriller in a turbulent period of history
Scottish crime fiction is a wonderfully rich and diverse area, as authors all over the land create their own characters and scenarios, with murders to...
A moving novel with a forgotten Scottish shame
In 1950s Scotland, thousands of children were removed from their families for a ‘better life’ in the rural idyll of the Scottish Highlands as ‘boarded-out’...
