After his wife's death, a former political correspondent is forced to consider his immediate concerns - no job, lack of friends, loneliness and boredom. Then in Paris he comes across the Casanova Papers, contemporary accounts of a man who gave his reputation to posterity. Is this a new beginning?

The Casanova papers

MacDOUGALL, Carl

Secker Warburg

Stone over water

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

When Andy Paterson gets out of jail, he finds Glasgow different from the place he left two years before. But before he himself can change, he must deal with the past, with why he went to jail and what happened while he was in there.

The lights below

The Devil and the Giro: Two Centuries of Scottish Stories

CANONGATE BOOKS *

<p>The Scottish story has its roots in an oral tradition where stories were told to entertain. It is a tradition that has not diminished over the years and indeed there is today a body of young writers in the forefront of contemporary literature whose narrative voice is as compelling as that of their illustrious predecessors. This collection includes stories from all the major Scottish writers both famous and unsung. Hogg, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, Hugh MacDiarmid, Muriel Spark, James Kelman, and Alasdair Gray are but a few of the 50 contributors. The anthology encompasses many examples of the themes in which Scottish writers have always excelled, most notably in that archetypal twinning of opposites where the ordinary meets the fantastic, man encounters the Devil, or the real and the supernatural converge. This is the stuff of the ancient storytellers and the tradition has persisted to this day where the hard reality of urban existence still involves coming to terms with life and death.</p>

The Devil and the Giro (Canongate Classics)

British & Irish

Canongate UK

A Cuckoo's Nest: Lesser-Known Scottish Folk Tales Collected and Retold by Carl Macdougall

Molendinar Press

The book of the series will be written by the presenter, and while it will follow the format of the television series, it will deal with the issues at a greater depth; it will include textual extracts and also be illustrated. The book will also feature the work of photographer, Murdo Macleod, who has photographed most of the featured living writers. The eight half-hour documentaries stem from a core belief that Scotland's unique and distinctive writing tradition has continually defined the nation, established its identity and was the springboard upon which devolution was built. And now at the start of the twenty-first century, Scottish writers enjoy unprecedented international acclaim and have helped define Scotland's place in the modern world. Hopscotch are delighted with the series which aims to bring a popular approach to ideas television: As producer John Archer put it, 'I believe that what works best on television is passion, and it is through the passion of the presenter and interviewees that we intend to draw in the general viewer.'

Writing Scotland

History & Criticism

Polygon Press

New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year it publishes the very best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. New Writing Scotland 30: A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening is the latest collection of excellent contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society, and includes new work by - among many others - Lin Anderson, Ron Butlin, Valerie Gillies, Alasdair Gray, Andrew Greig, Agnes Owens, and the Glasgow comic-book duo metaphrog.

Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

Black Middens

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