Features
Edinburgh Film Festival: The story of ‘Dummy Jim’
In 1951 a deaf factory worker from Aberdeenshire embarked on a solo cycling trip from his home to the Arctic Circle – 3000 miles away. Now the story of his remarkable journey has been made into a film set for its UK premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival tomorrow.
Iain Gray: Iain Banks a writer of the first rank
I was deeply saddened at news of Iain Banks’s death.
Iain Banks’s ‘bucket list’ wish for final book
THE Quarry may have been Iain Banks’s last novel, but there could be one more book to come from the late writer – a collection of poetry.
Book review: Investment in Blood: The True Costs Of Britain’s Afghan War, by Frank Ledwidge
BY THE time British troops start coming home for good some time towards the end of next year, the 12-year campaign in Afghanistan will have cost UK taxpayers at least £40 billion – probably more.
Book review: Here And Now: Letters 2008-2011, by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee
THIS could have been, and at times very nearly is, a most touching book: a correspondence between two men, one in his sixties, the other turning 70, both highly regarded novelists (one having won the ultimate accolade, the Nobel Prize), striking sparks off each other, shedding light on their work and becoming friends in the process.
Book reviews
Book reviews: Sisterland, by Curtis Sittenfeld
CURTIS Sittenfeld came to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic with her daring and provocative 2008 novel American Wife, which was loosely based on the life of Laura Bush but was really a study of the marriage of opposites.
Book review: Meet Me In Gaza, by Louise B Waugh
Intrepid Louisa Waugh discovers friendship and fascination in the ‘world’s largest open-air prison’, writes David Robinson
Book reviews: NW by Zadie Smith | An English Affair by Rupert Davenport-Hines | Higher Gossip by John Updike
Lots of us have heard the story of the Profumo scandal. Half a century ago, the Minister of War was connected, through an exotic dancer, to a Soviet naval attaché; later, there was a show trial, a high-profile death and gossip that lasted for decades.
Book review: Alexandria: The Last Nights Of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
An eighth try at a life of the Queen of the Nile brilliantly mixes history and autobiography
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Book review: The Quarry by Iain Banks
Death hovers over Iain Banks’s last novel but that doesn’t stop it being wonderfully exuberant, says Allan Massie
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