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Denise Mina (Photo: Ollie Grove)

13th Cromarty Film Festival plans announced

Culture
The full programme has been announced for the 13th annual Cromarty Film Festival. Guests including best-selling author Denise Mina, acclaimed journalist Lesley Riddoch, sound engineer...
Clare Brownlow's Christmas card for Schöffel Country

Pheasant feather artist makes a pleasant card

Culture
A Scottish-based artist has created the Christmas card for a leading outdoor clothing firm - using a pheasant feather. This year Schöffel Country have teamed...

Meeting Robert Louis Stevenson is in the timing

Books | Reviews | Scotland
Featuring in his third book, Tom Afflick is Philip Caveney’s time-travelling adventurer and this time he meets famous author Robert Louis Stevenson. Can Tom persuade...
Ben Castle-Gibb as Frankenstein

A modern Frankenstein – with Mary Shelley at its heart

Culture
Frankenstein - it's a book that's become a monster in itself over the years. Mary Shelley's Gothic tale, first published in 1818, has gone on...
Shlok Godiyal and Louis Duncan Payne discuss the Super Power Agency at Leith Acadamye with author Ian Rankin (Photo: Angus Blackburn)

Writer Ian Rankin joins the Super Power Agency

Books
ebus author Ian Rankin shared some of his love of literacy with a group of Scots schoolchildren yesterday. He was supporting the Super Power Agency,...

Celebrating the nation’s micro-distilleries

Books | Reviews
Distillation is a sort of magic that involves taking humble grains and turning them into wonderfully intoxicating spirits. Industrialisation has sucked the magic from the...
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