IT was 70 years ago this week that one of the most popular of 20th-century Scottish women writers and historians passed away.

Carol Ann Duffy was the first ever female Poet Laureate of the UK and the first to be born in Scotland. I can think of no good reason why she should not be included in the Scottish curriculum.

A total of 13 new scholars who have been awarded Visiting Research Fellowships to carry out research using its unique ...

Modern Love is a weekly column, a book, a podcast and a television show about relationships, feelings, betrayals and revelations. Modern Love is a weekly column, a book, a podcast and a television ...

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is to headline a stellar line-up for this year’s Paisley Book Festival. Belle and Sebastian ...

Elements, in Glasgow, has been accredited three Rosettes, after the anonymous judge who visited branded it 'modern Scottish cooking in a vibrant setting'. The eaterie, in Bearsden, is an intimate ...

Birlinn called him “one of the finest Scottish crime writers of his generation”. The publisher added: “Denzil was known for the skill with which he pinned to the page the reality of life on ...

Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch, acclaimed short story writer Chris McQueer and celebrated Glasgow restaurant ...

Much of Scotland, and indeed the rest of the UK and beyond (the story below ran in the London Standard), has been grimly gripped this week by the ongoing and scarcely believable trainwreck that is ...

The public are being invited to choose three new quotes from three of Scotland’s national poets to be added to the Scottish Parliament ... s most talented writers, thinkers and poets.