Extracts from this extraordinary novel, set in Glasgow and beyond. MacDonald's main character Farquhar McLay leads a traumatised existence beneath the streets of the city,…

This collection by Shetland-based poet Alex Cluness is deceptive in more ways than one. Apparently simple, the poems lure you into the minds of eighteen different men…

McNeil's poems open in Anstruther and move outwards, from childhood to adulthood, from local to universal themes, exploring questions of culture, language, community and inheritance.…

Duncan Ban MacIntyre’s long poem in praise of the great mountain of Ben Dorain in Argyll, is one of the finest achievements of Gaelic literature,…

"Sets a standard against which you will measure your future reading - for structure, for narrative control, for language, for new ways of writing about…