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“Everything about it – the language, the rhythm, the approach, the subject, the author – conspires to make a beautiful, vital, difficult, human piece of art.”

—Jenni Fagan’s OOTLIN, her memoir of growing up in care, has won the 2025 Gordon Burn Prize – an annual award celebrating writing that has an unconventional perspective, style or subject matter

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theguardian.com/books/2025/mar

The Guardian · Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prizeBy Ella Creamer
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“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”

Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OTD, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the Scottish outlaw internationally famous – & created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes

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theconversation.com/two-centur

The ConversationTwo centuries before Marvel and Star Wars, Walter Scott’s Rob Roy was the first modern anti-hero
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“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.
“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”

For #WorldBookDay (UK), a fable about a book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Reader”

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Stevenson’s FABLES are little gems of #shortstories, #flashfiction & #microfiction – download all 20 as a free ebook here:

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XI—THE READER “I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor. “You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.” “That is true,” said the reader. “My quarrel is with your author.” “Ah, well,” said the book, “you need not buy his rant.” “That is true,” said the reader. “But I thought him such a cheerful writer.” “I find him so,” said the book. “You must be differently made from me,” said the reader. “Let me tell you a fable,” said the book. “There were two men wrecked upon a desert island; one of them made believe he was at home, the other admitted—” “O, I know your kind of fable,” said the reader. “They both died.” “And so they did,” said the book. “no doubt of that. And everybody else.” “That is true,” said the reader. “Push it a little further for this once. And when they were all dead?” “They were in God’s hands, the same as before,” said the book. “Not much to boast of, by your account,” cried the reader. “Who is impious now?” said the book. And the reader put him on the fire. The coward crouches from the rod, And loathes the iron face of God.
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An Evening with Elissa Soave
13 March, Waterstones West End, Edinburgh. Tickets from £5.00.

Join Elissa Soave to celebrate the publication of her new novel GRAFFITI GIRLS, about women who refuse to go quietly when society tells them they’re no longer valuable beyond the age of 40

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EventbriteAn Evening with Elissa Soave - Edinburgh West EndJoin bestselling author, Elissa Soave as we celebrate the publication of her brilliantly sharp, empowering novel, Graffiti Girls
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When the Bough Breaks (1924) & Travel Light (1952) as SFF Texts

“Mitchison is a key figure for thinking about how a huge swathe of predominantly (but not exclusively) women’s writing of the interwar decades would be thought of as SFF from today’s perspective”

Nick Hubble looks at two novellas by Naomi Mitchison: When the Bough Breaks (1924) & Travel Light (1952)

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prospectiveculture.wordpress.c

Prospective Cultures · Road from Glasgow 2024 to PictCon 1: Naomi Mitchison, When the Bough Breaks(1924) and Travel Light (1952) as SFF TextsPart of my series of posts on Scottish SFF, which began in the run-up to the Glasgow WorldCon and is now continuing on to PictCon 1 in November 2025. This is also part of my series of posts conside…
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Celebrating the Centenary of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS

From 2020: a conversation between Lindsay specialist Douglas A. Anderson, Prof Robert A. Davisl, & author Nina Allan, discussing the novel & its influence on fantasy writers – hosted by the Unversity of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic

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youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuB

www.youtube.com- YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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“this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, & Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers … Once you read ARCTURUS, you’re always finding chunks of it here & there, like burning fragments of an exploded spaceship smoldering in a field”

—Dan Schwartz on David Lindsay’s cult status

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wearethemutants.com/2018/05/09

We Are the Mutants · “One Long Discomfort”: The Legacy and Future of David Lindsay’s ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the title and author’s name debossed into the front...
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“The current strength of Scottish weird fiction has its roots in Lindsay’s surreal & stricken work … Lindsay ought to be considered alongside writers like Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson & HP Lovecraft as one of the great proponents of cosmic horror.”

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/ma

The Bottle Imp · Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities - The Bottle ImpAlthough his two greatest works, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) and The Haunted Woman (1922) were re-issued as Canongate Classics in the 1980s, the work of David Lindsay has never achieved either the critical or popular acclaim he deserves. Born in 1876 in Lewisham, his parents came from Jedburgh and he spent much of his childhood there. His life […]
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Now is the Time of Monsters: Heather Parry on CARRION CROW

James Taylor interviews Heather Parry for the Glasgow Review of Books about her new novel, CARRION CROW – a gothic tale exploring mother-daughter relationships, sexuality, & class

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glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2025/

Glasgow Review of Books · NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS: Heather Parry On 'Carrion Crow' - Glasgow Review of BooksIn Heather Parry's novel "Carrion Crow," Marguerite is confined by her mother, Cécile, due to societal expectations. The story explores themes of oppression, maternal dynamics, and class struggle, fostering a dialogue on women's roles. Challenging historical norms, the narrative suggests that true freedom exists amidst confinement and reveals the complex nature of liberation.
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