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by Chris Deerin Updated: February 2, 2021, 11:33 am © Shutterstock Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A walk down the street in 2014 was not without risk. The less alert might blunder unknowingly into a piece of street theatre, or accidentally upend a declaiming novelist, a quavering folk singer or an enraptured po...

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ONCE you are reminded of the late William McIlvanney, it’s hard not to start missing him, his writing, his coolness. We had news this week of Ian Rankin being entrusted to work up some of Willie’s literary notes, found in his papers. These are sketches towards an early 1970s prequel for his ground-breaking crime novel, Laidlaw, which Rankin – an avowed McIlvanney devotee – has turned into a fully realised work. “I would find myself waking up in the middle of the night with a lin...