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Trisha Tobias: What’s In a Name – The Power of Starting Fresh

Honeysuckle and Bone touches on many topics: guilt, shame, grief, secrets. But at its core,…

Maithree Wijesekara: How my work as a dentist has helped me create multi-layered characters in my fantasy world

Writing gore comes easier to me than writing romance. While this is unfortunate from a…

Read an extract from The Notorious Virtues by Alwyn Hamilton

At sixteen, Honora ‘Nora’ Holtzfall is the daughter of the most powerful heiress in Gamanix;…

Book Review: Our Infinite Fates by Laura Steven

Evelyn has lived through a thousand lifetimes and in every single one, she’s been murdered…

Lauren Bravo: The lure of the chaotic, charismatic fictional family

Forgive me, but Tolstoy was wrong. Happy families are not all alike. Or perhaps the…

Sophie Austin: Victorian Fiction Is More Relevant Than Ever

I’m yet to meet a person that hasn’t read, watched, or at least heard of…

Glasgow Film Festival 2025: The best of the rest of the fest

The 21st edition has been another great Glasgow Film Festival. Here are some more of…

Alex Stone explains why twin sibling rivalry features at the heart of her latest psychological thriller

Sibling relationships have always fascinated me, especially those infused with rivalry, unresolved tensions, and unspoken…

Glasgow Film Festival Interview: Michael Premo discusses the production process for Homegrown and what happened afterwards

Homegrown follows three ‘Proud Boys’ (the far-right fascist group Trump famously told to ‘stand up…

Restless – Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review

After her father’s recent death, and her son leaving for university, Nicky (Lyndsey Marshal) is…

U Are The Universe – Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review

The near future. Andriy (Volodymyr Kravchuk) is an interspace junk man, whose job it is…

Glasgow Film Festival Interview: Julian Glander discusses the process of making his first feature, Boys Go To Jupiter

In six years of covering the Glasgow Film Festival, my favourite discovery has been the…