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 ...

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 ...

Anderson and Gray are also the masterminds behind the recent Bloody Scotland, the first festival dedicated to crime writing in Scotland. ‘The grand dame of Scottish crime fiction’ is one ...

Novelist Sir Ian Rankin has been announced as the first ever guest programmer for an “epic” crime writing festival. Sir Ian ...