Review by Michael Lister of Victoria Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs. …

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Three Men in a Boat was the novel artwork by Luke Fletcher in Edinburgh College of Art’s Third Year Exhibition. …

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SELWYN GOODACRE writes about collecting LEWIS CARROLL, in particular books from the Alice titles. …

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Reviews of A.C. Clarke’s The Gallery on the Left, the poetry magazine Fras 3, Anita Govan’s Jane, Jorie Graham’s Overlord, and Norman Kreitman’s Casanova’s 72nd Birthday. …

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Review of Malcolm Bradbury’s Liar’s Landscape: collected writing from a storyteller’s life, edited by Dominic Bradbury. …

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Archive article taking a critical look at ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’s poetry. He has long been overlooked or openly derided by commentators who consider him not ‘a major poet’ but, argues David Fergus, it is time we read his verses again and began to take him a little more seriously.
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In this audio interview, Edinburgh inkster RODNEY RELAX discusses his latest publications and performances and fondly remembers his friend and fellow poet Sandie Craigie. …

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Reviews of Eliza’s Babes, edited by Robyn Bolam, and Modern Women Poets and Consorting with Angels, both edited by Deryn Rees-Jones. …

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Review of The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell. …

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From the first issue of Scottish Book Collector in August 1987, this article discusses collecting the work of cult Scottish science fiction writer and transcendentalist, David Lindsay. …

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AONGHAS MACNEACAIL was born in Uig in 1942 and currently lives in Edinburgh. Poet, journalist, researcher, broadcaster and scriptwriter, he writes both in English and Gaelic. Here, in conversation with Robert Mullally in May 1994, he talks mainly about the genesis of his identity as a Gaelic poet. He was later to win the Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year with Oideachadh Ceart (A Proper Schooling), his third poetry collection, in 1997. …

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The very first interview to appear in Scottish Book Collector, in August 1987, features Textualities editor Jennie Renton in conversation with NORMAN MACCAIG, whose condensed lyrical poetry marked him out as one of the most significant and enduring poetic voices of the twentieth century. …

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Reviews of On Modern British Fiction, edited by Zachary Leader and Contemporary Novelists, British Fiction since 1970 by Peter Childs. …

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Review of Wild Ducks Flying Backward, a new prose and poetry collection by author Tom Robbins. …

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This 1986 interview with bookseller Marjorie McNaughtan – then retired – evokes a golden era in the book trade. Marjorie was a renowned expert in children’s books and the shop was a magnet for collectors. Its traditions have been continued by Elizabeth Strong, the current proprietor. Textualities editor Jennie Renton here also shares her own childhood memories of McNaughtan’s. …

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