This letter conveys his excitement at introducing one Scottish writer to the work of another. Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory. London: Macmillan 1984. J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan. London: Puffin Books, 2008.

Haggis is ceremoniously served to a soundtrack of bagpipes each year on Burns Night. But where did this offal-based creation ...

This is similar to other Scottish writers such as poets Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead, and playwright Ena Lamont Stewart, who have also sought to capture the idiosyncrasies of Scottish dialogue in ...

[John Caircross was the Scottish ‘5th Man’ in the Cambridge spy ring] HENDRY ... But this isn’t just some arcane Cold War story, it’s been suggested that the monitoring of writers goes up to the ...

To be or not to be on schools’ teaching syllabus – that is the question. Despite being widely seen as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, the Scottish Qualifications ...

He began writing while working on his father's farm and his first works were songs declaring his love to local girls. Burns' first collection of poetry, 'Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect ...

A Scottish mansion where writers Sir Walter Scott and William Wordsworth were reputed to have smoked opium has been brought to the market. Sir Walter lived at the house for six years and was also ...

This paper gives a brief overview of the ways in which madness is represented in modern Scottish literature and the different artistic functions it performs. It will consider the subject on a thematic ...

Co-writer of several Marmalade hits including ... and the familiarity of his face on TV screens as the erstwhile frontman with Scottish hitmakers the Marmalade, made the announcement of his ...