As the pre-orders roll in for Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, speculation continues about the title.  The publisher's blurb would have ...

James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York, in 1924. He was the eldest of nine children and watched over his siblings with ...

Atlanta author and bookseller Katie Mitchell likes to tell an identity-defining story about her childhood that often pleasantly shocks listeners.

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By the time he retired, he had established around 70 professorships, helped build dozens of buildings on campus, and tripled the number of student scholarships. Not so long ago, the place where ...

I WROTE a fortnight ago about the motion lodged at the Scottish Parliament entitled: “MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank Cottage, a Scottish ...