Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels, including The Cutting Room, Naming the Bones, The Girl on the Stairs, and most recently, the Plague Times Trilogy. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
In 1765 a French monk called Father Cléophas resolved to persuade forty-two enslaved people on the Island of Grenada to desert their British oppressors and return with him to Martinique. Cléophas was a member of the Brothers of Charity of the Order of St John of God, but he was not motivated by a desire […]
Not so long ago a tall tenement, a few doors down from the home of a friend of mine, fell down. My friend told me about it: the crash that sent her running to her children’s room; the wave of dust that rushed along the street turning the summer’s evening into choking night. She described […]