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Glasgow Life has announced its plans to remove late book fines from all of its libraries today.

WHEN her teacher asked her if she would like to work in archives when she left school, a young Fiona Cairns was horrified.

As the wizarding world celebrates the 25th anniversary of JK Rowling’s first book – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – we take a look at how the partnership between libraries and her creations played a fundamental role in promoting access to literature.

IS good health a freebie? Is an entitlement to education a freebie? Is monitored eyesight and dental care a freebie, along with social care when you…

WITH her collection of biographical poems Quines: Poems in Tribute to Women of Scotland, and her book of short stories Letting Go, Gerda Stevenson…

1 THE fabulous Val McDermid is appearing at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library this week talking about her new book and heroine Allie Burns – as well as…

1 GARY Numan, 02 Academy, Edinburgh, Monday, May 9 and 02 Academy, Glasgow, Tuesday.

My historical novel “A Most Immoral Woman” tells the story of Morrison’s passionate and unconventional affair with Mae Perkins, an independent and wealthy young American libertine, in 1904. It’s a tale that roams the landscape of a dynasty in decline, looks out over the battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War, and imagines a time when a woman’s forthright sexuality could be

GLASGOW’S Aye Write book festival launches today with a star-studded weekend kicking off the programme, set to run across the next three weekends.

Can a colonial hangman with a facial disfigurement ever get a fair press? A new book and exhibition tries to provide the answers.