Meet the 10 best new novelists for 2023 Our annual pick of the best debut authors has previously included Sally Rooney and Douglas Stuart. Here we talk to this year’s hottest prospects The Guardian - UK · Jan 8, 2023
Jamie T review – crowd-averse songwriter on happily raucous form The snaggle-toothed guitarist’s crookedly life-affirming indie-rock still whips an audience into as much merry bedlam as it did in the noughties The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2022
‘It’s a lot scarier to face winter here’: Britain’s coldest village prepares for freezing weather In Braemar, Aberdeenshire, people are used to low temperatures but there is anxiety about the soaring costs of staying warm The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2022
En suites, yoga and pastel shades: radical women’s prison to open in Scotland Lilias Centre in Glasgow focuses on independence and rehabilitation – experts say more places in such facilities needed The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2022
Cutting his teeth: how Bram Stoker found his inner Dracula in Scotland Author’s method acting approach to writing terrified local people in Aberdeenshire as he perched on the rocks like a bat The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2022
The Silver Darling, Aberdeen: ‘Don’t trust me, trust Rod Stewart’ – restaurant review Jumbo haddock with hand-cut chips and crushed peas, like all posh fish and chips, loses some of its charm in the bid to be posh The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2022
‘It means an awful lot to watch this’: care home residents pay respects to the Queen At a facility for older people in South Lanarkshire, residents watch coverage from Westminster Abbey The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2022
100 Gecs review – wizards of hyperpop hellbent on fun Loud and lurid, the American duo fuse distorted vocals, synthetic pop and singalong punk in a madcap extravaganza The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2022
‘It’s a bit of freedom’: traffic-stopping tech helps Glasgow school’s bike bus on its way Convoy of Shawlands primary children ‘have as much right to be on the road as cars’, say parents The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2022
Country diary: The many ghosts of Carberry Hill Queen Mary’s Mount, East Lothian: It is nearly 500 years since Mary, Queen of Scots surrendered here. Did she, like me, see herb robert on the way up? The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2022
Rip it up and start again? The great Cumbernauld town centre debate Depending on who you ask, it is either a blight on the landscape or a fine example of 1960s brutalism. Is demolition the right answer? The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2022