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Liz MacWhirter on Lamorna Ash’s compelling exploration of Gen Z’s turn to religion

Which novel would you recommend to someone who had never read a word written in your country? The first stop on our tour is Scotland, where Alan Warner highlights James Kelman’s astonishing Kieron Smith, boy

By Amy Jardine

From Bram E. Gieben’s scattergun philosophical essays to Carina Contini’s rich celebration of Scottish Italian culture,  Alistair Braidwood sifts through the year’s most compelling titles

Shirley Jackson’s subversive horror story The Lottery remains as pertinent today as when it first appeared seventy years ago, writes Sibylla Kalid

Alistair Braidwood is charmed by the story of Scotland’s innovative post punk outsiders

Alistair Braidwood admires this thrilling, thorough take on a golden age of Scottish music

A series of  health scares helped Kirsti Wishart reassess her judgment of others and find the road back to writing

By Jean Findlay

The top reads on Product this week

Sue Palmer hails Jonathan Haidt’s timely look at the explosion in smart phone addiction amongst children

From Rebecca Smith’s enthralling memoir to Michel Faber’s love letter to music, Alistair Braidwood sifts through the year’s most compelling titles

Alistair Braidwood salutes Michel Faber’s ambitious take on how music affects us at the deepest level

Alistair Braidwood enjoys getting lost in Seacrest, the fictional town of scheming cineastes in Kirsti Wishart’s latest book The Projectionist

Writer Jenni Fagan discusses her new book Hex, witchcraft and the problem with magical realism

Alistair Braidwood admires a fresh look at how Simple Minds created their early innovations

In the second instalment of our interview, author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímíde answers readers’ questions about institutional racism, structuring, sobriety and solitude

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímíde wrote one of the standout books of 2021. She fields readers’ questions on craft, dyslexia, diversity and how to find your confidence as a writer

Author Catherine Simpson’s remarkable work ranges across short stories, fiction and memoir. She discusses Alan Bennett, grabbing writing  time and why details matter

The Broken Pane, Charlie Roy’s harrowing but uplifting debut examines loss, tragedy and our relationship with the past. Here she discusses creative process and how she grew from wistful scribbler to published author

Bobby Gillespie’s sharp memoir vividly recounts the rise of a driven musical obsessive, writes Alistair Braidwood

Graeme Macrae Burnet’s latest multi-layered mystery combines great wit and invention, writes Alistair Braidwood

A uniquely talented writer of short stories, novels and poetry, Anne Leigh Parrish opens up about owls, Monet and the art of precision

Andrei Semenev enjoys an expansive study of Russia’s courageous and complex opposition leader

From Rapper’s Delight to Fight The Power, Dylan Jones salvages the maligned 1980s in ten tracks, writes Alistair Braidwood

The inspiring story of Preston’s rebirth highlights some telling lessons and limits of localism, writes James Foley

It’s time to protect books and those who create them, writes Jean Findlay