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scotlit , 1 day ago to bookstodon group

Only Here, Only Now by Tom Newlands review – growing up with ADHD

“The prose in Tom Newlands’ debut novel is glorious, managing the feat of being both muscular and airy at the same time. But it is first and foremost the landscape that he stakes out that grabs you by the throat”

—Tom Newlands’ ONLY HERE, ONLY NOW is the Guardian’s Book of the Day

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#Scottish #literature #neurodivergent #ADHD

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jun/27/only-here-only-now-by-tom-newlands-review-growing-up-with-adhd

scotlit , 1 day ago to bookstodon group

The longlist for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime book of the year 2024 has been announced – congratulations to DV Bishop, SG Maclean, Chris Brookmyre, Charles Cumming, Andrew James Greig, Doug Johnstone, Val McDermid, Abir Mukherjee, CS Robertson, Kim Sherwood, Doug Sinclair, & Douglas Skelton

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#Scottish #literature #CrimeFiction

https://bloodyscotland.com/longlist-revealed-for-the-mcilvanney-prize-2024/

scotlit , 3 days ago to bookstodon group

GLASGOW BOYS
3 July, National Library of Scotland at Kelvinhall, Glasgow – free

Margaret McDonald will talk about her debut novel GLASGOW BOYS – a story about #mentalhealth, #queerness, & the #Scottish #workingclass – with National Librarian & Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland Amina Shah

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#literature #Glasgow

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-boys-in-conversation-with-margaret-mcdonald-tickets-891686858397

scotlit , 4 days ago to bookstodon group

“There’s a kind of liberal fallacy, that we think if we hold the right views, and vote the right way, and mind our language, that we are somehow protected from young people thinking we’re in the wrong.”

—Andrew O’Hagan, interviewed in the New Yorker about his latest novel CALEDONIAN ROAD

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#Scottish #literature

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/andrew-ohagans-bonfire-of-the-vanities

scotlit , 7 days ago to bookstodon group

PictCon1
18 October, Perth, #Scotland

A one-day #sciencefiction convention in Perth – a chance to talk about #books, #games, #films etc. with an emphasis on #Scottish writers. Guest of honour Francesca Barbini, founder of Luna Press

#literature #scifi #convention

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pictcon1-tickets-926790704947

scotlit , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”

Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous #collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #RobertLouisStevenson #WomenWriters #humour

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/

scotlit , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

—“Mr. Johnson, (said I) I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it.”
—“That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.”

May 16 is Biographers Day – marking the 1st meeting of James Boswell & Samuel Johnson in 1763

#Scottish #literature #biography #SamuelJohnson #JamesBoswell #18thCentury
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https://lithub.com/of-course-samuel-johnson-met-james-boswell-in-a-bookstore/