Books & Poetry

'After Sarah Everard, do I want to big up the police?' James Oswald on morality of crime fiction

German crime author Simone Buchholz; an aerial view of the River Clyde; exterior of Celtic Park; and The Doublet in Glasgow. Pictures: Gerald von Foris/Chris Hepburn/Getty/Nick Ponty/Kirsty Anderson

How Glasgow, the River Clyde and a Celtic player inspired a gritty German crime thriller
SIMONE Buchholz is telling the story of how Glasgow came to be at the heart of her latest crime thriller River Clyde. It all began almost two decades ago when the German author arrived in Scotland to visit friends.

Author Douglas Skelton

Books: An Honourable Thief by Douglas Skelton
AN HONOURABLE THIEF

Author Ian McEwan

Books: The legendary Ian McEwan is back with his 17th novel.

Novelist Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett : Portrait of an angry ‘old fart’

Author Stephen King

Book: Literary heavy hitters Robert Harris and Stephen King are back with their latest novels...

Paperbacks: Spaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite

Books new release: Spaceships Over Glasgow by Stuart Braithwaite

The new health minister cannot abide the Oxford comma, it has emerged

Issue of the day: Coffey's distaste for the Oxford comma

Well trained: Paul Theroux at Central Station ...

Book review: Paul Theroux on a seam of brotherly loathing

Festival in Scotland's National Book Town to get a taste of life in Antarctic

Festival in Scotland's National Book Town to get a taste of life in Antarctic

Robert Clow, photographed for The Herald by Phil Rider

Obituary: Robert Clow, irrepressible driving force behind the chain of John Smith's bookshops

Highlanders carrying a coffin

Discovering Scotland's coffin roads

Ann Cleeves [credit David Hirst]

Books: Ann Cleeves releases the tenth instalment of her Vera series

Irvine Welsh is at the top of his game. so why does he crave obscurity?

Scott Hutchison

Books: Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison is remembered by a poet who loved him

Renowned author of stories for young people Alan Garner

PREMIUM Teddy Jamieson: Alan Garner, who is Booker prize list at 88, proves oldies have so much to offer

Sir Lenny Henry with Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield

Sir Lenny Henry on career knocks, comedy joy and how he now chooses jobs more carefully

Women Like Us by Amanda Prowse

Paperbacks: Women Like Us by Amanda Prowse

PREMIUM Iain Macwhirter;: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World byAndrew Doyle. Review

North Erradale. Picture: GR Halliday

Crime writer GR Halliday on discovering a little slice of Scottish paradise

Play is essential to early child development

Letters: A play-based kindergarten school stage would be a vitally important culture change

From The Ashes by Deborah Masson

Paperbacks: From The Ashes by Deborah Masson

Panoramic Aerial View of Cabo San Lucas in Baja california Sur, Mexico..

Book review: A powerful portrait of human folly

The Queen Of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan

Books: Dive into a new book this week with our latest crop of releases...

Martin Compston is to star in new BBC production based on the best-selling Andrew O'Hagan novel Mayflies

Mayflies production to close Glasgow streets

The launch of Scotland Her Story by Rosemary Goring, with Alan Taylor

PREMIUM Rosemary Goring: So that's why I'm sometimes asked if I miss Argentina...

The Massed Pipes and Drums perform on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle at this year's Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Letters: Why have they messed about with the Tattoo?

The Voids by Ryan O’Connor

Paperback review: The Voids by Ryan O’Connor

Author David Lagercrantz

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Books: Author David Lagercrantz has penned a classic murder mystery

Shoppers queue outside a butchers and pie shop (c 1950)

Book review: Have we become more civilised since the Second World War?

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Belonging, a nature memoir about race and "the things that make us who we are"

PJ Harvey, rocker turned poet

Hitlist: Our pick of the 10 best Edinburgh International Book Festival shows

Anaïs Demoustier in French sex comoedy Anaïs In Love

From Simple Minds to Scottish Opera, our pick of five of the best arts events

The novel is studded with period details from newsrooms – such as The Herald’s – of yesteryear

Book review: 1989 from the No.1 bestselling author Val McDermid

Fleshworld by Carole Morin

Paperback review: Fleshworld by Carole Morin

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Books: Hernan Diaz's latest book has been longlisted for this year's Booker Prize...

Kathy Reichs
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Books: Kathy Reichs on weaving grisly real life cases into her novels

The Snowman has sold more than 5.5 million copies around the world.

The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs dies aged 88

Poem of the week with Lesley Duncan

Jack Monroe has been hailed a working class hero for campaigning for hunger relief and providing low-budget recipes for struggling families

Issue of the day: Would you wash the sauce off spaghetti hoops?

When the Dachau concentration camp was built, Oberstdorfers realised their folly

Books: When evil lurked in kind hearts

Author Juno Dawson is launching her first adult series of book

Books: A bewitching adventure and a radical her-story

Frankie Boyle has launched his first fiction novel

Paperbacks: Frankie Boyle swaps comedy for crime with his debut novel...

Suzie Lee, author of Simply Chinese

Pictures: PA Photo/Lizzie Mayson

Food: Best Home Cook winner Suzie Lee on embracing Cantonese food after her mum died

The system of free university tuition for Scots was this week attacked as grossly unfair by the think tank Reform Scotland

Letters: The Scottish Government must give up control of the funding of higher education

Portrait of Douglas Stuart at the Maker Hotel in Hudson, New York. Photo credit: Sarah Blesener.

Shuggie Bain author admits Glasgow Cathedral event will be a 'little intimidating'

Readers' Editor: Scotland gets ready for world's greatest arts festival

The Battle of Glen Shiel in Scotland, during the Jacobite Rebellion, 10th June 1719. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

Books: The history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland

Common Decency by Susannah Dickey

Paperback: Common Decency by Susannah Dickey

Author Lisa Jewell

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Books: Bolu Babalola's new novel is the July pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club...

Bibiana Maas, founder of 3Times Rebel

"Scotland has a sisterhood with Catalonia." The rebel politics of language

The not proven verdict has long enjoyed the confidence of the judiciary

Letters: There is a logic in the not proven verdict and abolishing it will have consequences

Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones in the movie of Helen Fielding's hit book

Issue of the day: Bridget Jones is coming back

The Scottish winter can be bleak, but these children make the most of it at school

Herald Short Story: Scottish Winter Time by Jacqueline Allingham

Scottish Crime Writer Chris Brookmyre

Paperback: The Cliff House by Chris Brookmyre

French author Simon de Beauvoir, 68, in her Parisian apartment. Simone de Beauvoir is renowned for her book

Books: A new introduction to Simone De Beauvoir aims to free us from our chains