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Three years apart in age, Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower were both formed as writers by the fact of being Australian-born women.
Last week two nice men in a big orange van delivered a great deal of stuff from our family home in Edinburgh , as its doleful dissolution nears.
Julyan Wickham, the architect, who has died aged 82, would doubtless have worked on the design of plate-glass and concrete universities as tertiary education expanded following the 1963 Robbins Report, had he been born a generation or so earlier; but by the time he had established himself, after leaving the Architectural Association in 1966, that succulent gravy train had passed.
From Trainspotting to Poor Things, we tot up some of the best examples of Scottish novels going from page to screen.
Strike out on the paper trail and discover six bookish cities with vibrant literary connections