Tag: Saraband

What Doesn’t Kill Us by Ajay Close will be published by Saraband on 8 February 2024.On 2 January 1981, over five years after committing his first murder, Peter Sutcliffe was finally arrested just a...

In Death Drop, her fifth Harcus & Laird detective novel, Edinburgh author Claire MacLeary addresses issues around bullying, domestic violence, cross-dressing, cyber fraud and people trafficking.And of course her two detectives, Wilma Harcus...

Payback is the latest novel by Edinburgh writer Claire MacLeary, and the fourth in her series about two female private detectives, Maggie Laird and Wilma Harcus.In Mannofield, an extension of Aberdeen’s respectable West End,...

We first met Ms Shona McMonagle in Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, Edinburgh author Olga Wojtas’s debut novel.Shona, now a librarian in Morningside, that most respectable and genteel of Edinburgh suburbs, is a proud...

In 2016 Graeme Macrae Burnet’s novel His Bloody Project was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. On Saturday he was in the new Spark Theatre at Edinburgh International Book Festival, talking to Roland Gulliver (EIBF...

‘A badger peed on my wellies once while I was wearing them. It was like being anointed by nature.’ Many of us are good at sitting still, but few of us see it as a...

'Most people live on a lonely island Lost in the middle of a foggy sea. Most people long for another island One where they know they will like to be.' So sings Bloody Mary in the musical South...

When Jane Alexander was a little girl, the highlight of her country holidays was the annual treasure hunt; she loved it so much she even asked her Dad to set one up back in...

In Stornoway, says author Ian Stephen, in his soft and sibilant tones, 'people will talk forever about fish'. He was here in Charlotte Square, still talking about fish, but also weaving through friendships, Harris tweed, Hebridean...

What do people usually do on their honeymoons? Before you answer, let me tell you what journalist Maggie Ritchie did; she found the inspiration for her first novel - and no, it wasn't 50...