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Book Festival authors short-listed for Scottish writing awards

Book Festival authors short-listed for Scottish writing awards
Fri 02 April 2010

We’re pleased to announce that eight of the sixteen Scottish authors short-listed for the Scottish Arts Council’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust 2010 Book Awards took part in the Book Festival last year. Among them are world-class poets Don Paterson and John Burnside, talented fiction writers A L Kennedy and Alan Bissett and biographer of the Scottish Bard, Robert Crawford…

Results of our online poll thus far

Results of our online poll thus far
Fri 02 April 2010

We started a weekly online poll back at the end of February to find out a bit about what you, our web visitors, think about literary issues. And here are the results so far…