History
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QUARANTINE – extract from a work-in-progress called “EXTINCTION”. This chapter was written last year, before all of this…
Quarantine I came jolting along in a cart, wrapped up in a bale of cloth on a warm wet day in August, following a summer of fever and failed crops. I remember the journey well. The carter didn’t know I was there, of course. He’d transported the package of cloth all the way from London,…
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“Surfacing” Between the Storms
We’ve reached the point in the year when you can glance back, and remember what it felt like to live in almost total darkness. Grabbing quick walks on bare pavements, with a residual mist hanging under the streetlights, sounds carrying clearly on the air. Whenever I’m at that dark point of the year (December) I…
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Farewell Collieston
Last summer the Scottish Book Trust told me that a tiny rural primary school near Collieston had chosen me to partner them in a residency. The teacher there, Conor Meehan, thought that the wild location of his school, coupled with the rumours that Bram Stoker had stayed there and been inspired by the ruins of…
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Book Week Scotland — Alex Nye writes…
If you’re in Glasgow 6.30pm on Tuesday 19th November, drop into Waterstones Sauchiehall Street for a FREE BookWeekScotland event, thanks to Publishing Scotland. Hear twelve authors:- Claire MacLeary, Elizabeth Wein, Anne Donovan, Caro Ramsay, Alan Martin, Sylvia Hehir, L.M. Affrossman, Gary Chudleigh, Kevin P Gilday, Alan Brown, Tanya Roberts and me… If you can’t make […]…