The Purple, White and Green: The Story of the Scottish Suffragettes
This Tuesday 6 February marked the hundredth anniversary of the first women being granted the right to vote, and the Scottish Storytelling Centre paid homage to this in characteristically original…
Book Week Scotland: Hunger Pains: Foodbank Britain with Kayleigh Garthwaite
With a theme as broad as ‘Nourish’, Book Week Scotland has hosted a number of events marking the intersection between food and literature. Nestled within the programme Lighthouse Bookstore’s typically…
Radical Book Fair Launch: Shami Chakrabarti on Women
“I believe the meaning of life is other people”, claims Shami Chakrabarti upon launching the Radical Book Fair with her talk ‘On Women’ to a sold-out audience on 16 November.…
How Not to Be a Boy
Robert Webb stays true to his comedic roots with How Not to be a Boy. In what is perhaps best described as a memoir-with-an-agenda, the book sees Webb look back…
The rise of essay mills reflects the realities of student life
Recent years have seen an increase in students seeking new and, in some cases, morally questionable methods in a bid to achieve better grades. For example, the rise in popularity…