Living by the Sword
Independent Scottish publisher Freight Books, which lists Irvine Welsh among its authors, is under the control of a provisional liquidator as it looks to be saved.
Living by the Sword
In 1727 one of the most brutal episodes in Scottish history came to an end as the country’s last witch burning took place.
Living by the Sword
St Andrews is renowned for its ecclesiastical ruins, ancient university and proud distinction as ‘the home of golf’. Some, however, say the town deserves more recognition for its paranormal links.
Living by the Sword
Popular Scottish comedian Limmy has been branded “sick” for tweeting a hoax that Simon Cowell had died.
Living by the Sword
A majestic castle that was once the seat of the Clan Grant chiefs of Strathspey, in the Scottish Highlands, and previously owned by former Rangers chairman Craig Whyte is on the market.
Living by the Sword
At home and in restaurants, diners are now able to eat cod knowing it comes from a sustainable, tracable source.
Living by the Sword
Sherlock Holmes may reside on London’s Baker Street – but Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthplace, played an important part in the detective’s creation.
Living by the Sword
A descendant of Bram Stoker is to travel to Scotland for the first time next month to visit the stretch of North East coastline which inspired his ancestor’s classic horror tale Dracula.
Living by the Sword
Ostensibly Graeme Macrae Burnet is not the author, but only the translator, of his novel. It was, he says, published in France more than 20 years after its author, Raymond Brunet, had killed himself, and after the much later death of Brunet’s mother.
Toronto Fencing Club
It took Cindy Gao eight years to earn the bragging rights to become Canada’s top female fencing champ.
Living by the Sword
Outlander cast and crew will arrive in Perthshire this week to film scenes for season four of the time travelling fantasy.
Living by the Sword
The image of Nan Shepherd which now graces a £5 bank note is a curious one. She looks as if she is in fancy-dress as a Native American, or a flapper more concerned with the Charleston than the Cairngorms.
Living by the Sword
Good novelists usually have an unmistakable voice. There are exceptions of course, and by what must seem a stroke of injustice, such novelists, no matter the other qualities they may have, rarely last.
Living by the Sword
In the main auditorium of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, the audience is gathering around a space that seems to have shifted slightly on its axis. Where the stage usually sits, there are extra rows of seats facing towards us; and the stage itself has become an oval...
Living by the Sword
Alistair Moffat has an insatiable appetite for knowledge and experience, and an insatiable curiosity. So it is just as well that he seems also to have an inexhaustible store of energy, both intellectual and physical.
