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Original 1970s novel given a tweak by its author

There are many things I never thought I’d do, and giving a Peter May book a review riddled with caveats is one of them. Ever...

A fascinating year as the ethical carnivore

Over the course of a year, former Scottish Field staff writer Louise Gray decides to only eat what she has killed, a task that sounds...
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The Scot whose invented land cost 200 lives

On 27 April 1823 an Edinburgh cobbler lay ill and despondent in his small, bamboo hut in a jungle clearing on the Mosquito Coast. He...

Writers setting forth on a voyage of Discovery

The Voyage Out is an international anthology of writing, art and science. It compares the act of creating something on a blank page to the...
Des (seated) hosts BBC Scotland topical quiz show Breaking the News

The smiling Scots comic who’s now got the drive

Scots comedian Des Clarke is everywhere you look these days. Having presented the breakfast show on Capital Scotland for a decade, he is about to...

Scotland’s museum gems highlighted in book form

From Pictish Stones to Dolly the Sheep, this selection of over 100 items from the National Museum of Scotland is but a fraction of the...


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