Walter Scott’s Waverley novels and Robert Louis Stevenson’s notebooks were printed on Penicuik paper, and Turner painted on it too. AR: How did it come about? Had you been interested in the stories of ...

The Old Edinburgh Club draws our attention to what happened in the capital in years and centuries gone by. Day Event 1st: In 1918, Dame Muriel Spark (author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) was born ...

Over in the sleepy suburb of Mount Waverley, you'll find Mango Tree Thai offering up ... Cookie’s drinks menu is novel-like but the quintessential Mai Thai is always a safe bet. The Thai offering at ...

Let’s pounce. I’ve seen this book classified as a housewife’s revenge novel, but that description is far too prosaic for this bundle of emasculated anxiety, cross-cultural irony and lethal ...

Indeed, Scotland is known for its vast range of hues that run the gamut from the intense yellow-gold of gorse to the red of ...

After winning just about every major science fiction and fantasy award, Nnedi Okorafor explores a traumatic event in her own history in her most autobiographical novel yet. By Alexandra Alter When ...

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, by Emma Knight, is a charming novel about the British class system and coming of age at college in Scotland. In the department of challenging relationships ...

At the time, I was working on a novel about Moroccan immigrants and desperate for affirmation that the draft I had completed held worth, that I hadn’t been wasting my time. But as soon as I ...

And maybe hoping, as a reader, to also encounter occasions to laugh is obscene. But a new debut novel by a celebrated Palestinian American playwright responds in a startling way to the burden that ...

These novels typically feature richly detailed worlds, a compelling central romance and fantastical themes like magic, mythical creatures or epic adventures. Common themes include forbidden love ...

Author of Shelf Life, Michael Robb answers a few questions about his experiences working in the bookselling and publishing industries ...

It's a new year, with new romance novels to dive into. Authors continue offering dreamy, dramatic, entertaining, and sexy reads. Romance buffs can look forward to new works from fan-favorite ...