Stuart Campbell describes his passion for book collecting and how he manages to buy a first edition of Treasure Island in The Scottish Book Collector. ‘It is clearly outrageous to pay £1500 for a book: the Gross National Product of a small country. And what do you do when you’ve Read more…
An extract from a forthcoming anthology of essays in praise of Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson took me hostage half a century ago when life was full of possibility and I was young and easy under the apple boughs (he hates it when I quote other writers), and I was clearly Read more…
Psycho, loony, nutter, weirdo, waste of space, mongo, not the full shilling, a sandwich short of a picnic, windae licker. The litany of abusive terms for sufferers of mental illness speaks volumes about the stigma and ignorance that surrounds the topic. How many abusive terms can you think of for Read more…