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Granite Noir, Aberdeen’s crime writing Festival, returns to the city with a packed programme of events including two shows with David Suchet.

The full programme for Granite Noir 2024 crime-writing festival in Aberdeen has been revealed by the organisers.

American Jay Close has been living in Russia for 30 years and believes that this is the place of true freedom.

Perth Noir will take place on Saturday November 18 from 3-6pm in Perth - a perfect setting given the Fair City's dark past.

Catherine Carswell IN May 1908 The Times published a court report on a landmark trial, “a wife’s suit for the nullity of marriage on the ground that at the time of marriage the husband was insane and incapable of contracting marriage.” The wife in question would go on to become one of Scotland’s most significant, though relatively under-appreciated writers, one of the few women who made a mark in the 20th century Scottish renaissance, Catherine Carswell. Carswell would write Open Th...

HE is regarded as one of the greatest poets Scotland has ever produced; now some of William Soutar’s work has been recreated in a CD of poignant songs. The music aims to both celebrate Soutar and bring his early 20th century works into the 21st century with renewed meaning and strength. A leading figure of the Scottish literary renaissance, Soutar, from Perth, died of tuberculosis in 1943 after many years of ill health. He was 45 years of age. His biographer Alexander Scott later said...

2 She went on to study music at the Schumann Conservatorium in Frankfurt am Main before taking up employment as reviewer and dramatic critic at the Glasgow Times’ sister newspaper, the Glasgow Herald from 1907 until 1915. She also worked as an assistant theatre critic for the Observer. 3 Her first novel, Open the Door, was published in 1920, selling out of all 9000 copies printed and winning a literary prize. She followed it in 1922 with The Camomile. She developed a particular interest i...