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The Great Horizon by Jo Woolf

Book review – The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration

Show a cat an empty box and the chances are, they’ll jump into it. Show a human a mountain and it’s quite probably they’ll feel...
Colin Speedie’s new book A Sea Monster’s Tale: In Search of the Basking Shark

Book review: A Sea Monster’s Tale

Colin Speedie’s new book A Sea Monster’s Tale: In Search of the Basking Shark takes us from swashbuckling hunts of giant sharks by reckless individuals...
Blunder book

Book review: An Enormous Reckless Blunder

An Enormous Reckless Blunder tells the little-known story of the Lewis Chemical Works. In 1844, James Matheson purchased the Isle of Lewis with the fortune...
Still Game's Isa, Jane McCarry, will star in Bingo! (Photo: Jane McCarry/Twitter)

TV stars will tour in new Scottish stage comedy

Two Scottish theatre companies are collaborating in new musical comedy which is touring the country. Grid Iron and Stellar Quines theatre companies come together to...
Giants of the Clyde by Robert Jeffrey

Book review: Giants of the Clyde

The River Clyde in Glasgow was known internationally and recognised as the ultimate shipbuilding accolade. By as late as the 1950s around a seventh of...
Highland Retreats by Mary Miers

Book Review: Highland Retreats

The north of Scotland is famous for its large country homes - so many great buildings, hidden away in quiet corners, surrounded by acres of...


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