15 April 2013
INVERNESS fans of crime writer Ian Rankin had an early insight into this year’s novel from the bestselling author when he announced the title at…
11 April 2013
COMPARE the blurb between two of Val McDermid’s thrillers – from 1993, then 2013 – and you can see where 20 years hard graft with a…
11 April 2013
FOR author Anne Perry, appearing at a book festival an easy trip from home makes a very pleasant change.
09 April 2013
BESTSELLING crime writer Ian Rankin will unveil the title of his next thriller from an Inverness bookshop - direct to London Book…
06 April 2013
What Goes On Tour by Sam Derbyshire (Matador £8.99)
03 April 2013
A PRETTY girl is found hanging near a frozen pond, a stranger in a dark cloak spies on a one-time friend and a recruiting ship’s officers use booze…
29 March 2013
WITH the legend of Loch Ness long proving a magnet for tourists to our area, perhaps a book called "No Such Thing as a Nessie!" is not a title we want…
21 March 2013
TICKETS for Ullapool Book Festival go on sale tomorrow, Friday 22nd March, offering the chance to see a range of authors from newcomers to critically…
15 March 2013
WITH a title that nods to a slasher film franchise and one of the Christian world’s most reviled villains in Judas Iscariot, Biblically inspired…
13 March 2013
AFTER a career in journalism and public relations that has taken him from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the highest echelons of Canadian politics,…
07 March 2013
CROMARTY’S first Crime and Thrillers weekend will get underway with a chance for readers to show their own sleuthing skills.
06 March 2013
A HIGHLAND author is stepping into "Da Vinci Code" territory with his own theory on the hiding place of the Holy Grail — and comes up with a solution…
03 March 2013
PART-TIME resident of the Black Isle, crime writer Ian Rankin will be on the other side of the Moray Firth this June for an event in Nairn.
01 March 2013
THE word tsunami, previously a specialist term in the world of earth science, sprang suddenly into universal usage as the shocking events of 26th December…
25 February 2013
Dead Water
22 February 2013
SKYE-BASED writer Orla Broderick will talk about – and later sign – her debut novel The January Flower at Waterstones, Inverness, next Thursday…
22 February 2013
THE Nairn Book and Arts Festival will celebrate its 10th year with a first – a £10,000 Creative Scotland grant.
15 February 2013
IT was when his father had three strokes in 2001-2002 that Martin Stepek began to research the terrible odyssey that brought his Polish family to Scotland…
24 January 2013
The Macsween Haggis Bible (Birlinn, £4.99)
23 January 2013
The Chess Men by Peter May
