‘Rat Race’, by Callum McSorley

Rat Race is Callum McSorley’s third and final instalment of DCI Alison McCoist’s Glasgow trilogy. In this sensational finale, the young Fran Forbes gets embroiled in a crime syndicate that takes him from Dennistoun in Glasgow’s East End to dealing with a Russian OCG. Exploiting the all-too-familiar world-altering events of 2020, McSorley’s central character, Fran Forbes, […]

‘Better byde the cuiks, nor the mediciners’: food and poetry in medieval and early modern Scotland (c. 1400–1650)

Fresh seafood, heather honey, oats, dulse seaweed, and kale: Scotland’s larder is increasingly enjoyed on a world stage featured on Michelin star menus and even touted as ‘cult’ cuisine. Our earliest extant writings and song in Scotland explore, celebrate, and criticise food. An obvious example is, of course, ‘To a Haggis’. Eaten on Burns night, the […]


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