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The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is a collaboration with Bloody Scotland – Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival. Alistair Braidwood speaks to the five shortlisted authors for this year’s McIlvanney Prize, awarded for the best Scottish crime book of the year.
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The latest Scots Whay Hae! podcast is our latest collaboration with Bloody Scotland - Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival - where Ali spoke to the five shortlisted authors for this year's McIlvanney Prize which is awarded for the best Scottish crime book of the year.They include Tariq Ashkanani (The Midnight King), Liam McIlvanney (The Good Father), Callum McSorley (Paperboy), Denise Mina (The Good Liar), and Ian Rankin (Midnight And Blue).All the writers give a brief synopsis of the
Currently on BBC Sounds: award-winning crime writer Denise Mina discusses her 20th novel, THE GOOD LIAR, which follows blood-spatter forensics expert Claudia O’Sheil as she faces a profound moral dilemma. Denise also shares the 3 key books that inspired the novel’s creation
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Bloody Scotland 2025
A Kick Up the Arts with Ian Rankin, Natalie Jayne Clark & Gordon Brown
Recorded at the launch of Bloody Scotland 2025, host Nicola Meighan is joined by Sir Ian Rankin, Bloody Scotland founder and author Gordon Brown – aka Morgan Cry – and writer Natalie Jayne Clark, whose new book The Malt Whisky Murders is shortlisted for the festival’s 2025 debut novel prize.
We’re in my hometown of Stirling in this episode, for the launch of the brilliant Crime Writing Festival, Bloody Scotland , which started back in 2012… I’m joined by this year’s guest programmer, Sir Ian Rankin, festival co-founder and author Gordon Brown, and debut novelist Natalie Jayne Clark…
“You don’t just start trying to heelflip. Tricks build on other tricks. There’s a natural order, it’s like a branching tree. . To learn to heelflip you first need to be able to ollie.”
Callum McSorley – author & proud adult skateboarder – on “two to make it true”: facing your fears for one more try…
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This isn’t a confession: I’m a proud adult skateboarder. A 35-year-old grown man, married with children, with a job (sort of) and a house, and I love cruising about on a wee plank of wood with wheels on it. I love learning new tricks and I love the lingo – as an author, patter is, […]
“To study Josephine Tey’s literary connections is to draw out a different picture of the inter-war & post-war Scottish literary scene: one that foregrounds women, & draws out forgotten areas of popularity”
Jennifer Morag Henderson uncovers the mysteries of Goldan Age crime queen Josephine Tey
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Josephine Tey is best-remembered today as a crime novelist. Born in Inverness in 1896, Tey was the author of eight crime novels, of which six feature her detective Inspector Alan Grant. Her book The Daughter of Time, a unique exploration of the historical mystery of whether Richard III killed the Princes in the Tower, was […]
“I began to sense the intimate connection between architecture and crime fiction. If the house is, in Le Corbusier’s famous phrase, a machine for living in, then the room, in crime fiction, is a box for murder”
Liam McIlvanney cases the Architecture of Scottish Crime Fiction, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Abir Mukherjee
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Shortly after moving into our current house in Dunedin – a house named ‘Dunnottar’ by a possibly homesick previous occupant – I found the architectural blueprints in a drawer. As I studied the floorplans, with their doorways and windows and hallways and stairs, what popped into my mind was Agatha Christie, closely followed by the […]
“Since the early twentieth century, Gaelic writers have been experimenting with crime elements and trying to write in the genre…”
Petra Johana Poncarová investigates crime fiction in Gaelic in the 20th & 21st centuries
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Interest in crime in Gaelic literature can be traced far back into songs and tales, both anonymous and attributed, that deal with violence and felony, from well-known historical events, such as the Keppoch murder, to local incidents, but the history of focused crime fiction writing is much shorter. Since the early twentieth century, Gaelic writers […]
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