We’ve asked Scotland’s leading writers, booksellers, festival directors and critics to pick the books that they most enjoyed reading in 2018. There will be new selections every day throughout December. Today's selection is from Aran Ward Sell.

We’ve asked Scotland’s leading writers, booksellers, festival directors and critics to pick the books that they most enjoyed reading in 2018. There will be new selections every day throughout December. Today's selection is from Nick Major.

We’ve asked Scotland’s leading writers, booksellers, festival directors and critics to pick the books that they most enjoyed reading in 2018. There will be new selections every day throughout December. Today's selection is from Anna Girling.

We’ve asked Scotland’s leading writers, booksellers, festival directors and critics to pick the books that they most enjoyed reading in 2018. There will be new selections every day throughout December. Today's selection is from Alistair Moffat.

  St Andrew’s Night saw the presentation of the annual Saltire Literary Awards at a ceremony in Edinburgh. This year’s setting under the canopy of Dynamic Earth at Holyrood gave a welcome sparkle to the occasion, with the museum’s revolving globe projecting the illusion of snow...

We’ve asked Scotland’s leading writers, booksellers, festival directors and critics to pick the books that they most enjoyed reading in 2018. There will be new selections every day throughout December. Today's selection is from Christopher Silver.

  I. The Lorelei express helpfully links Cologne and Tuebingen, but the Rhine didn’t look too good. In place of the swift rush of its waters – conveying and challenging barges, pleasure boats of all sizes, ferries – there were dried-out shores of pale stone: several metres lower than normal....

  On a summer’s day Rose Ellis arrives at the job she doesn’t-much-love but doesn’t-hate-enough-to-leave to find that her entire floor will be subjected to an ‘AquaProductivity’ experiment. Stagnating sales at Edinburgh’s MoneyTownCashGrowth are, quite literally, putting her team under...

  The longlist for the Highland Book Prize, announced today, features an expanding range of books in the prize’s second year. The proportion of fiction on the list of fourteen titles has increased in 2018 with Gaelic and crime fiction featuring for the first time. Donnchadh MacGillIosa is...

There was widespread shock and sadness in Scotland at the revelation, in a typically graceful piece by Kenneth Roy for the Scottish Review, the online journal he founded and edited, that he had a terminal illness. His death, more shockingly, followed only a month later, but not before he had revealed,...