Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Alison Napier lives in Perthshire. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in various anthologies, journals and national newspapers. Her first novel, Take-Away People, was shortlisted for the 2015 Dundee International Book Prize and she can be contacted via www.alisonnapier.com.
For those seeking an answer to the FAQ, “What was it like in the Scottish Iron Age?”, the bad news is that the most definitive “I was there” written account is forever lost, probably around two thousand years ago. On The Ocean – a record of a remarkable journey undertaken by the Greek navigator, geographer […]
Fiction should not have feminism stamped through it like Edinburgh Rock, nor need every heroine (and I use the word advisedly as opposed to, say, ‘key protagonist’) be the glorious Ifemelu in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah or even Chris Guthrie — but I would suggest that, at this early stage of the twenty-first century, they […]
If I wrote that this was a book about a violent protagonist with a turbulent back-story who heads for the wilderness to seek isolation, and perhaps ultimately a reconciliation with the past, you might assume that I was talking about a man. An emotionally wounded man perhaps, bearded and haunted with sad eyes and a […]