Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As soon as you mention historical fiction books set in Scotland, the first one that comes to mind for nearly everyone is Outlander ...

While it’s as misleading to lump all Scottish crime authors under one umbrella as it is to refer generally to “American crime writers,” there are certain common threads that run throughout the ...

Idlewild are a strange band. Not in terms of their music, which is about as strange as white in a hospital, but in terms of their place in recent music history. Some bands shun the mainstream and are ...

Scotland has always had a rich storytelling histo­ry and the predilections towards the fantastical are evident in even the earliest oral incarnations of social-sharing. The folk tales and mythologies ...

The rugged Caithness coastline figures prominently in Neil Gunn’s debut novel, The Grey Coast, first published 100 years ago in 1926 and now being re-released by North House Press | Hans Lucas/AFP via ...

Hugh MacDiarmid's death 25 years ago this week was a watershed for Scottish literature, although it was several years before the extent of his loss was fully felt. A provocative, rambunctious writer, ...

As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of the most ...