Library: essay

Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Prize 2021, Patrick Laurie's essay is about a man and his son digging peat in the age of climate change.

Captain the bookshop cat has become one of the unexpected stars of Shaun Bythell's Diary of a Bookseller. Here the Wigtown-based author describes his love-hate relationship with his feline companion.

The author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell, on how he has coped with with shutting his Wigtown shop during lockdown.

When writer Ken Ilgunas got stuck in the US during lockdown, he didn't expect to find himself living next door to survivalists prepping for armageddon.

In our latest Letter from Lockdown, author and lay-preacher Stuart Kelly (a Reader in the Church of Scotland) reflects on time, worship and isolation.

How do online book events stand up to the “real” thing? And how will they change our literary landscape for ever? Writer and Granite Noir festival programmer Lee Randall finds out.

The critic and author Stuart Kelly takes a sweep through world literature as he considers what books to turn to during the current crisis.

After entering the gruelling Marathon Des Sables, writer Alice moved to Morocco, where she now lives permanently. We asked her to write about her life there in the current crisis.