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Writer Q&A: Liz Lochhead

A poet, author and former art teacher, Liz Lochhead was named Scotland’s makar, or poet laureate, last year. The post enables her to share her passion for the written and spoken word with Scots of all generations.

What book are you reading now?

Something not at all my usual kind of novel at all, and one that took me a while to get into, then I really enjoyed. A big long Julian Barnes novel Arthur and George, which is, on the surface, about Arthur Conan Doyle using his literary fame to overturn a grotesque miscarriage of justice (as he did in reality) but becomes about much more - love, the meaning of life and death, wee things like that! - with a light touch and some subtle, humane humour.