Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Dr Gina Lyle is an Associate Lecturer in English Studies at the University of York’s Norwegian Study Centre (gina.lyle@york.ac.uk). Her research centres on contemporary Scottish fiction, and she is an editor for The Literary Encyclopaedia’s Scottish Culture and Writing Post-45 volume.
Michel Faber is not an easy writer to talk about. His work – which crosses genres, covers prose and verse, may be for adults or children, may gestate for years before publication, and which ranges from short form to massive tomes – presents problems to anyone attempting to produce an academic guide. This is a hardship […]
As the home of Aberdeen Angus, Ayrshire bacon, and haggis, Scotland has an especially meaty reputation. In our fiction we spot meat constantly: Neil Gunn takes us hunting, Archie Hind’s Dear Green Place (1966) steps inside a Glasgow slaughterhouse, and Morvern Callar and Shuggie Bain are both working shifts at meat counters when we meet them. Despite the […]
In an antique diary stolen from the home of a wealthy friend, Daniel Lightfoot discovers the fascinating life of James Lennoxlove. His diary is steeped in intrigue. Lennoxlove’s home, Bitterhall, appears on no maps; his surname is absent from any ancestry pages; his dates and descriptions clash and conflict. With all its confusion and inconsistency, […]