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Book review: Arts and the Nation

Books
What’s the Story? Arts and the Nation evaluates the similarities and differences between Scottish and international writers, artists and composers. Recognising that there has been...

Scottish Opera premier will be all Greek in New York

Culture
Opera fans will have the chance to see Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures’ co-production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek in the Big Apple this December when...
Kevin Guthrie as Johnny, who accompanies Edie on her journey (Photo: Arrow Films)

New film should inspire more people onto our hills

Film & TV
Veteran actress Sheila Hancock is leading the way in a new film which is it hoped will get people onto Scotland's hills. She stars in...

Book review – Ghost by Helen Grant

Books | Scotland
What’s the story? Ghost is the tale of Augusta McAndrew, a girl living on a remote Scottish estate with her elderly grandmother Rose. She knows...
Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship winner David Kennan

New Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowships

Books
Four authors have been honoured by the Scottish Book Trust. The Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading and writing, has revealed that the...
JK Rowling wrote her early books in the Elephant House in Edinburgh

10 fantastic Scottish facts about Harry Potter

Culture
From polyjuice potion to gillyweed, transfiguration to parseltongue, most of us are familiar with the weird and wonderful creations of JK Rowling’s imagination. Aside from...
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