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The future is not Orange

The Orange Prize for Fiction is looking for a new name and a new sponsor after the phone company announced it was stopping its support.

The Da Vinci Code is also a hit movie. Picture: Getty

Scotland’s favourite book a novel ‘so bad it gives novels a bad name’

LITERARY snobs and lovers of the Scottish novel look away now. Scotland’s favourite book is the best-selling and much-maligned The Da Vinci Code, according to a new poll.

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Author Kate Summerscale. Picture: Getty

Book extract: The original Mrs Robinson

Kate Summerscale’s book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, revisits 19th century New Town Edinburgh and a scandal that rocked Victorian society. In this exclusive extract, Isabella meets a handsome young doctor

Trisha Grant of the Glasgow Room at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. Picture: Robert Perry

Notebook: Glasgow’s shelf life

IN A southern state of America lives a young girl. Named Ruchazie: as in Ruchazie Jones or Ruchazie Martinez – Ruchazie as in her Christian name. This Ruchazie (perhaps her friends just call her Ruch) must be around ten by now and reaching that age when kids start to get inquisitive. So how, she may soon be coming to wonder, when all her friends sport names like Christy-Lou and Shannice, did she come to be called Ruchazie?

Book review: Ramshackle, by Elizabeth Reeder

LITERARY chins have, for a while now, wagged about Chicago-born Elizabeth Reeder, a teacher on the much-admired University of Glasgow Creative Writing Programme, and now based in Scotland.

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Alan Warner. Picture: Jayne Wright

Book review: The Deadman’s Pedal, by Alan Warner

IT LOOKS, at the outset of his seventh novel, as if Alan Warner is going to follow Donna Tartt, Alan Hollinghurst, Naomi Alderman and countless others down that well-trodden path back to Brideshead: callow, curious boy is transformed by exposure to exhilaratingly depraved toffs.

Book review: Why Spencer Perceval Had To Die, by Andro Linklater

SPENCER Perceval, although he is hardly a household name, occupies a unique and unfortunate position in British history: he is the only Prime Minister to have been assassinated. If that piece of trivia is pub-quiz obscure, then the name of his murderer (John Bellingham) is certainly worth more than a bonus point.

Book review: Dark Dawn, by Matt McGuire

THERE’S no messing with Matt McGuire and the blunt, hard-nosed opener to his debut crime novel: “It was January. It was raining. The kid was dead.”

Book review: Opposed Positions by Gwendoline Riley

THE references to literary greats may be flattering but Gwendoline Riley’s distinctive style puts her beyond compare, says Stuart Kelly

Book review: Curiosity by Philip Ball

WHAT do we mean by curiosity? What do we mean by the terms scientific thinking or scientific method? How have these things changed over the centuries, and what should we even be curious about? Is anything off limits?

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