Marc Lambert News Today

Library workers say that cuts are leading to reductions in services, while the Scottish Book Trust warns that libraries are "endangered".

A WRITER living in Shetland has been announced as one of eleven recipients of Scottish Book Trust’s prestigious New Writers Award for 2024. Siún Carden works as a research fellow at UHI Shetland's centre for island creativity. Originally from County Down in Northern Ireland,...

Iain Cumming (48) from Laide, is a Gaelic teacher who finds inspiration for his writing in the rich history, culture and landscape of the Highlands.

Ms Donaldson first visited Auchterhouse Primary School in the late 1990s. She promised that if The Gruffalo was ever published, she would dedicate it to them - and to this day they are celebrated at the front of every edition.

Young bookworms at a Scots primary school had the honour of helping one of their best-loved childrens characters begin his 25th anniversary…

The Gruffalo writer Julia Donaldson returned to a Scottish primary school as she kick-started the 25th anniversary celebrations of the much-loved pict...

A GLASGOW-based author says he is “chuffed tae the gunnies” to win a major book prize.

A Dingwall-based writer and journalist has received a £2000 bursary to develop one of his projects.

Almost 100,000 people could be left with a single library under drastic cost-cutting measures. Campaigners say proposals to shut down 16 libraries would be a backwards move.

A CHARITY has announced it will gift books to children and families visiting the Galashiels and Peeblesshire foodbanks this winter.