All the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott book prize - The 12 will be cut down to a shortlist in May, with the ...

The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist in May. The winner will ...

If you're looking for some 2025 reading inspiration, why not explore the impressive roster of debut female authors in fiction ...

Some budding Scottish crime writers are actually studying forensic ... Fourteen books into her own crime fiction series, Lin Anderson acknowledges the importance of real life forensic science ...

Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel Sunset Song was recently dropped as a set text on the Higher English syllabus. Now the 1971 ...

This is the background of Gliff, a new novel from award-winning Scottish writer Ali Smith. If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing.

Scottish writers and publishers are considering innovative ways to tackle challenges they face from artificial intelligence (AI). Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay said he had "huge concerns" about ...

The position will see the award-winning novelist put his own spin on the event, including some new events for the programme.

Thus, a Black woman science fiction — or fantasy — writer might be the most prescient writers of these genres. The field has long been run by mostly white men: the J.R.R. Tolkiens, Philip K.

Writers are influenced by their historical context: what was happening in the world when the fiction was written and set. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to flatter a real-life Scottish King ...