Janet Christie
Janet Christie
Senior digital journalist, Scotsman magazine chief interviewer and columnist and Scotland on Sunday Travel Editor
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Author Paula Hawkins will appear at Granite Noir crime writing festival in Aberdeen next month, where she will talk about her new thriller, The Blue Hour, and introduce a showing of the film of her bestselling debut novel, The Girl on the Train.

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Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon will be appearing at a special festive Edinburgh’s Christmas In Conversation event, In The Company of Books, on 15 December at The Assembly Rooms on the Mound where they will be joined by Alan Cumming and bestselling author Paula Hawkins to discuss all things books.

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Sorcha Groundsell stars in An t-Eilean (The Island), the UK’s first-ever high-end Gaelic drama series

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Squid Game has proved so popular that some young Scots have been trying to learn Korean to watch it in its original language (Picture: Sebastian Reuter)

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Emily Hampshire is back in Season Two of Amazon Prime's The Rig

Why being back on The Rig is a coming home for Emily Hampshire

Sharleen Spiteri on stage in Glasgow in 2024.

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Dr Punam Krishan is back on Strictly Come Dancing in the season finale. Thanks to Kimpton Blythswood Square, Glasgow.

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Mark Diver and Nick Harrold are outreach workers with Cyrenians' Homeless Navigators Project, working with homeless people in Edinburgh.

Cyrenians fights against homelessness on Edinburgh's streets

Cinderella at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre is hilarious, and helps make a political point about those who criticise 'middle class women of a certain age' too

Why 'middle-class women of a certain age' are the ones speaking out Janet Christie

Val McDermid and Nicola Sturgeon will be joined by Alan Cumming and Paula Wilkins at In the Company of Books in Edinburgh on 15 December.

Exclusive Nicola Sturgeon opens up on her memoir: 'I'm not out to settle scores'

Lorraine Kelly presenting her daily 'Lorraine' ITV show last month.

Exclusive Lorraine Kelly at 65 - the lessons I've learned in life and TV

Judy Murray will be appearing at the new St Andrew’s Book Festival in London. Thanks to Gleneagles Townhouse, Edinburgh

Judy Murray: 'I reckon we’ve all got a murder in us'

Crime writer Ian Rankin outside The Oxford Bar in Edinburgh, which features in his Rebus novels

Ian Rankin to name character in new book after auction's top bidder

Gregor Fisher and Greg McHugh, who star as father and son in the new BBC comedy, Only Child.

Gregor Fisher at 70: 'I've learnt not to get so bloody wound up'

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