Promoting and supporting the teaching and study of Scottish literature and language
Pippa Goldschmidt is a writer and blogger based in Edinburgh. Her 2015 short story collection, The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space, was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and her 2012 novel, The Falling Sky, was runner-up for the Dundee International Book Prize.
Jenni Fagan’s intensely atmospheric second novel is set in a remote Scottish community in the very near future, covering a period of a few months during which the temperature decreases from –6° to –56°. There is no question that this extreme weather is a deadly threat, but unlike many novels with apocalyptic set-ups, this world […]
The narrator of John Burnside’s tenth novel is a young woman with a lot of problems. Kate Lambert is sliding into alcoholism as she grieves for her recently dead father, and the story opens when she happens upon Jean Culver’s house while gathering stories for her boyfriend Laurits’ next film project. Jean makes Kate an […]