Craig Robertson and others talk baddies to Bookdagger.
Edinburgh's Tales of One City has a Youtube channel. See Iain Banks, Doug Johnstone, Irvine Welsh and much more (thanks to @scottishbooks) .
Ian Rankin - celebrity whale watcher. And he is great to follow on Twitter "Apparently, my brand new Inspector Rebus short story, 'The Very Last Drop', will be published in Friday's 'Scotsman' newspaper", he says. Yippee! He also says: "wondering if the couple who won me on ebay left positive feedback..."
A great article in The Guardian on John Buchan's Richard Hannay books.
The lovely Karen over at Eurocrime comments on several books with a football focus, including books by Scots Bill Knox, Alex Gray and Alexander McCall Smith.
More from The Scotsman on Creative Scotland and the potential pitfalls which need to be avoided.
A reminder of a rather excellent sounding event with Ray Banks on Friday if you are in London.
Booksquawk reviews THE DARKNESS by Bill Kirton. The South African Times Live reviews Ian Rankin and Philip Kerr. And the delightful Bernadette in Oz enjoyed Caro Ramsay's SINGING TO THE DEAD, but has a double pronged rant about authors who do not update their websites and how all Scottish authors end up being called "the next Ian Rankin", even when they patently aren't. Well said, that woman.
The Chicago Tribune on why mysteries still matter.
Carol Anne Davies on a recent Home Office report which recommends that police stop talking about crime because it upsets people. Her story of being flashed at reminds me of when a friend and I were once flashed at in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
And, finally, there's only a week or so to go, so I'm getting as many plugs in as possible for my death defying plunge across the River Clyde on a piece of string. All sponsorship or encouraging comments gratefully received.
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I have just been looking at the JustGiving site, dear Donna. You really weren't joking about the enormous bottom, were you. Anyhoo, I pray you will take great care on March 21st. If March 22nd finds me weeping softly into my pillow prior to rejecting all foods in preparation for pining slowly but gracefully into oblivion, it will be your fault.
ReplyDeleteLOL Philip. No, sadly, I wasn't joking. If you look REALLY closely at that photo, you can see the vapour trail from the Boeing 747 my bum was obscuring.
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