by tim_bell | Jan 22, 2014 | Latest News
If you see a man called John Harvey going about, buy him a pint. He’s a playwright to trade. He read the drafts of my book and said to himself ‘It’s good, very good. As answers to exam questions, that is. But where’s the story, where’s...
by tim_bell | Dec 13, 2013 | Latest News
In Edinburgh for the festivities? Up in Edinburgh they call you to the so-called ‘underground’ tours, by which they mean you guddle about in the cellars of the Old Town. We mean something different by ‘underground’ in Leith. Full of references...
by tim_bell | Dec 13, 2013 | Latest News
Spud stirred restlessly in his bed. It wasn’t the first Christmas Eve he had spent in a hostel. It seemed crazy, but that damn street light just outside his window was brighter than usual. The wee parcel that had been brought in by a stranger and left at the front...
by tim_bell | Nov 29, 2013 | Latest News
So Irvine Welsh has written a short story for the Christmas edition of The Big Issue, the monthly magazine of a charity that supports homeless folk. Good on him – it’s one of several worthy causes Welsh has supported over the years. But we should worry....
by tim_bell | Nov 29, 2013 | Latest News
Another plaudit comes Welsh’s way. In a Scottish Book Trust poll Trainspotting has just been voted the favourite Scottish novel of the last half-century. Congratulations are in order. Can’t argue with a popular vote. But Welsh is right to raise doubts...
