First published in The Skinny (April 2011). Several years ago, Bolton born author Glen Duncan was named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the UK’s twenty best young novelists. Yet, seven novels into his career, the literary establishment still isn’t entirely sure what to make of him; kindly, he’s been described as ‘an […]
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The Launch of Cargo Crate
First published by The Skinny (April 2011) As launches go, the birth of Cargo Crate was definitely a tale of two cities. On a Friday evening in a chilled Edinburgh, within the hallowed halls of the National Library of Scotland, there were serious talks on the past and future of ‘the book’, with publishers and academics in […]
A Question of Language
Typically, the most controversial, and potentially most interesting, question came at the end of the event, when there wasn’t really any time. To explain, I was at a “breakfast” reading at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, featuring Scottish writers Des Dillon, Anne Donovan and Alan (I’m not stalking him, honest!) Bissett. They each read from […]
