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Debut Prize - Allan Gaw

The Good Books, Allan Gaw: ‘I was forced to read Shane by Jack Schaeferto at school, to this day I still can’t abide westerns’

Allan Gaw has been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize with his crime fiction novel, The Silent House of Sleep.     The first book...
Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance.

LORD OF THE DANCE: Michael Flatley’s iconic production returns to Scotland

MICHAEL Flatley’s Lord of the Dance show is due to return to Bonnie Scotland. The world-renowned Irish dancing production is poised to dazzle audiences in...
Laura Davis. Credit: Chayla Taylor

Life with comedian Laura Davis: ‘I go for a three hour walk almost every evening, to write’

Australian comedian Laura Davis on the loneliness of comedy, Scotland's rich wildlife, and how finding a large number of dead birds on a beach in...
Sheila Girling in her studio c.1990.

Most comprehensive exhibition to date of British painter Sheila Girling to open in Scotland this summer

Sophie Farquharson looks ahead to the new Sheila Girling exhibition in Fife this summer.    She was a ground-breaking British abstract painter renowned for her...
Credit: Noonans

The first Naval V.C. of the Great War awarded to Edinburgh Captain to fetch more than £200,000 at auction

Noonans Mayfair are to sell the first Naval V.C. of the Great War. The medal was awarded to Captain Henry Peel Ritchie of the Royal...
Maine Highland Games [Shari Rodden]

Maine Highland Games: A celebration of Scottish heritage and culture

Did you know that Maine has the highest concentration of people with Scottish ancestry in the United States? Ahead of the 45th Maine Highland Games,...


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