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'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.

JK Rowling meets school pupils in Somerset

Harry Potter books signed by JK Rowling and left on shelf for years to be auctioned
The author visited a school and signed copies of the first two books in the series.

Sponsored Journey into the 'mind of infinity' with Christian author Joe Livingston

Why is private enterprise missing out on the renewables opportunities?

Letters Is capitalism dead here? Where are so-called giants of industry when we need them?

JK Rowling has hit out at First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in the ongoing row over Isla Bryson and housing trans prisoners in women's jails

Rowling's fury over First Minister's 'misogynist' claim

The Witches Memorial, Forfar

Travel: Author Allyson Shaw on her love for the Witches Memorial in Forfar

Kia Abdullah in Richmond. Picture: India Hobson

Book reviews: Something nasty in the neighbourhood

Poem: Hail to spring’s intrepid forerunner, the Snowdrop

Boundless As The |Sky

Books new release: Boundless As The Sky by Dawn Raffel

Picture of Andy McNab with his hand masking his face. See PA Feature BOOK Andy McNab. Picture credit should read: Neil Spence/PA. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature BOOK Andy McNab.

Andy McNab: Why we need to be wary of being hacked, blackmailed and stolen online

Artist and stonemason Beatrice Searle pulling the 40kg boulder she sourced from an Orkney beach on her home-made trailer

Books: A plucky trek with a slab of Orkney stone makes for an offbeat travelogue

Kirstie Allsopp's homework remarks have renewed debate on the rights and wrongs of home assignments

Issue of the day Kirstie Allsopp's homework plea to parents – ditch it and pick up a book

Tom Adair: Why Burns is still big the world over

Opinion Tom Adair: Why Burns is still big the world over

Our Writer at Large talks to Scotland's leading Burns scholars to separate fact from fiction

NEIL MACKAY'S BIG READ Sex, racism, sectarianism and Scottish independence … the truth about Rabbie Burns

The Highland Girls At War Helen Yendall

Highland lumberjills find love in wartime in new book

Advocates Close, Royal Mile, Old Town, Edinburgh.

Dark secrets emerge against the sinister backdrop of Scots city in new novel

A still from the upcoming game Hogwarts Legacy which, due to its connection to Edinburgh-based Ms Rowling, is being subjected to a

Issue of the day Issue of the day: The anti-Rowling 'game' campaign

Prince Harry

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Books: Spare, Prince Harry cuts quite a sad figure, dogged by the trauma of his past

The Delgados

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On the radar: From wintry nightmares to watery laughter Cultural highlights

James Barclay Price, on horseback in Athole Gardens, Glasgow, c. 1910

Pets And The City: The furred and feathered friends that built Glasgow

Joan McAlpine at Ellisland Farm, Dumfries. Picture: Jenny Woolgar

Kevin McKenna: Rescuing Burns from the Scottish establishment

Gripping tale of secrets and lies

Books new release: A gripping tale of secrets and lies by Andrea Mara

Bret Easton Ellis

Image: Casey Nelson

Brett Easton Ellis: Portrait of the author as a hungry young man

A street is littered with damaged vehicles and debris after the area was hit by tsunami tidal waves at Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand, Sunday December 26, 2004.

Books: We broke the news...and the news broke us

The game is set in the world created by JK Rowling

Call to boycott new Harry Potter game over JK Rowling trans comments fails

Wendy Joseph KC will be discussing six extraordinary cases in Trials of the Old Bailey - part of this year's Granite Noir festival in Aberdeen

Granite Noir festival programme revealed

Hamburg (Picture: Andreas Vallbracht)

A semi-incestuous love that plunges family into chaos

Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government Shona Robison during the stage 3 proceedings of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill

Letters Rushed passing of gender reform bill shows Holyrood needs a second chamber

East Neuk, Fife. Picture: Lisa Ballantyne

Travel: Author Lisa Ballantyne on the joy of the East Neuk

Violent tale that packs a punch

Paul Auster's violent tale of US love of guns packs a punch

The royal brothers photographed in 2021 on what would have been their mother's 60th birthday. Pic: Yui MokPA Wire

As Spare is published, are William and Harry the royal family’s Noel and Liam?

Fay Weldon.Picture: Alex Baker

Fay Weldon...and a St Andrews hotel that could have been the model for Fawlty Towers

Brits are looking at their monthly expenditure on streaming services as a quick way to cut down on expenditure amid

Issue of the day Goodbye Amazon Prime and Spotify: Will you stop streaming in 2023?

Edson Arantes Do Nascimento Pele of Brazil celebrates the victory after winnings the 1970 World Cup in Mexico match between Brazil and Italy (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images).

The magic of Pelé – Poem of the week

Willy Maley, son of James Maley who was a volunteer in the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He is pictured in front of the La Pasionaria memorial on Clyde Street, Glasgow

Big Interview Kevin McKenna: How a few good men fought Franco and fascism

Kinglsey Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling (as Ken) and Ncuti Gatwa in Barbie

23 to see for 2023: What to read, watch, listen to and see for the year ahead

Nadia Caterina Munno, author of The Pasta Queen (HarperCollins, £22)

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Three hidden gem cookbooks from 2022

Lazara Canton is an author and Mindset Healer

Agenda How to navigate the closed world of publishing

The return of Seinfeld in 1995 to UK shores was such bliss

Opinion Teddy Jamieson: A life spotted in the margins of a diary

Scotland’s dynamic oral traditions now include stories from many diverse heritages such as Mara Menzies’ tale of the terrible fate that befell the boy in Kenya who did not listen to his mother

Jamie Chambers: Rediscovering Scotland's rich oral tradition of storytelling

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has provided a blueprint of how we should celebrate Christmas – but do its morals preserve the festive status quo?

Opinion Colin Alexander: Hero or villain – did Dickens create the cruel capitalist Christmas?

A Crepes stand at the German Market

Rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditions

Dashboard Elvis Is Dead

Books new release: Dashboard Elvis Is Dead

Crime writer Ann Cleeves

Crime Writer's laptop containing draft of novel found in Shetland snow

Thomas Healy wrote about boxing and man’s relationship with dogs

Obituary: Thomas Healy, writer whose life was given order by a Doberman called Martin

Lesley Duncan: You can help the Scots language thrive

Lesley Duncan: You can help the Scots language thrive

East German soldiers and West German soldiers remove some of the first sections of the Berlin Wall at Potsdammer Platz

(Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images).

Books: Ian McEwan takes on time, life and history in his magnum opus Lessons

12 best books to give as gifts this Christmas

Scots Word of the Week: Trews

Poem of the week: Poignant memory of a father’s love

Nisha Katona

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Food: Nisha Katona on how the right spices will change your life

This is the Afterlife by Jeff Chon

Books: This is the Afterlife is a complex and poignant story

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Books: A compelling behind-the-scenes view of Boris Johnson's downfall

It is generally accepted that the average GP's workload has massively increased in recent years

Letters Relax the rules for medical students to resolve the shortage of GPs

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo

From Young Mungo to old Rebus, our pick of the best Scottish novels of 2022