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Here are some new Scottish music releases to help you discover new artists and support local talent.

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Le livre très attendu The Lyrics de Paul McCartney ne sort que mardi prochain et il est déjà sélectionné parmi les...

“Lean Fall Stand,” a new book by Jon McGregor, and “Storm,” a new edition of a 1941 book by George R. Stewart, examine the unpredictable power of extreme weather events.

The novels of British author Jon McGregor are distinguished by their enlightening perceptions of both human nature and Mother Nature, and by their restrained prose, as potent as it is subtle.

The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the years fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this years top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbe...

Maggie O’Farrell on reading to ‘fill your soul’ Amy Sutherland © MURDO MACLEODAll Novelist Maggie OFarrell. In her award-winning, best-selling novel, “Hamnet,” Maggie O’Farrell imagines life in 16th-century England when the Black Plague claims the life of an 11-year-old boy who happens to be the only son of a budding playwright. The Irish-born author grew up in Wales and Scotland, where she now lives in Edinburgh with her family. Her previous book was the memoir, ...

The ‘triumphant’ new novel from Jon McGregor

Review by Neil Mackay “WORDS, words, words, they’re all we have to go on,” Tom Stoppard wrote – half in melancholy, half in delight – in his play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Language, Stoppard tells us in his tragicomic take on the lives of two minor characters in Hamlet, is what defines us poor human creatures – it’s all that separates us from the beasts. Jon McGregor must have been listening. His new novel, Lean Fall Stand, may ostensibly tell of a terrible acci...

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka (Bloomsbury) The Nobel laureate’s first novel in almost 50 years promises “murder, mayhem and no shortage of drama” in contemporary Nigeria. The Thursday Murder Club 2 by Richard Osman (Viking) Last year the Pointless co-host’s cosy crime debut set in a retirement home broke sales records; here comes the sequel. Waters of Salvation by Richard Coles (W&N) A new crime series from everyone’s favourite vicar begins ...