Yesterday bought Laidlaw by William McIlvanney from my local bookshop, Backstory in Balham. https://backstory.london/ It cost £9.99. On Amazon it's £8.99. Or you can read it for free on Kindle Unlimited. McIlvanney is from Kilmarnock in Scotland where I grew up. I can well imagine his scorn for Amazon and Kindle. An extra £ well, spent, I feel.
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Rebus swaps pubs for bars!

Ian Rankin's latest Rebus novel, Midnight and Blue (published by Orion Books), is out in paperback, with our detective facing time in the Clink - right alongside many of the criminals he sent to the Big House in previous years...

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Fury as 136-year-old Scots golf course ripped up by yobs on e-bikes

GREENKEEPERS at an Edinburgh golf course have been left heartbroken after yobs on e-bikes wreaked havoc on the property.Over a dozen thugs were filmed riding roughshod over the fairways and greens of Braid Hills Golf Course in the Morningside area of the capital.4Braid Hills Golf Course in Edinburgh was ripped up by the bikers4The greens will now need weeks if not months of work4The greenkeepers have shared their despair at the damageAnd the footage has prompted outrage on social media, with some urging the course to install cameras to capture them if they commit the act again and others calling

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