These days, Scotland is the subject of endless, sometimes hysterical stories of doom, gloom and impending ruin. It’s a wonder we haven’t all drowned in entropy or spontaneously imploded. It’s a ludicrous and depressing distraction, but fortunately as this ethereally-mongered fear falls to earth it is finding itself slowly overgrown by green shoots. Life remains […]
My Favourite Place
As part of Book Week Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust has been distributing free copies of a short volume called My Favourite Place. It’s a collection of brief stories, poems and songs by members of the public and a handful of familiar names such as Liz Lochhead, Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul and Michael Palin. Those of […]