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Aardman’s egg-streamly excellent British comedy makes a welcome return, and Bradley Cooper is a superb Leonard Bernstein

Twenty-five years is a long and a short time in the life of the written word. Since Scottish Book Trust was founded in 1998, hundreds of Scottish…

The fabulous multi-award-winning Drifters tribute band, Soul Kinda Wonderful, is coming to Ballina Arts Centre on Saturday, November 18th, as part of a packed ten-day tour of Ireland

Our literature, written in English, is deeply entwined with colonial era

The audience were riveted for Steve and Anne Brusatte's exciting after-school session.

The audience were riveted for Steve and Anne Brusatte's exciting after-school session.

John King, author of The Football Factory, on elite snobbery and his new novella.

‘We all secretly want to be rock stars,’ the 2022 Booker Prize-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka said recently. By ‘we’ he meant novelists, and he was more or less right. Most authors want to be rock stars, just as many rock stars aspire to bookish credibility. The former crave a whiff of glamour and instant gratification;

SO, how do you greet Irvine Welsh on meeting him for the first time? You’d considered something effusive like: “I’ve been dying to meet you…

“I regret that I never met Hilary Mantel,” says the Booker-winning Scottish novelist, whose most recent book, “Young Mungo,” is now out in paperback. “I would be delighted with three of her.”