Other Writing

Event: The Great North Road

We are delighted to announce the launch of The Great North Road, a captivating historical tale given its long-awaited conclusion by author Stuart Campbell. This novel began life with the master of Scottish letters, Robert Louis Stevenson, and has finally been brought to publication, over a century after it was laid aside. The Great North Road is an exciting narrative set against a backdrop of highwaymen, murder, and doomed romance. Stevenson himself was enthusiastic about Read more

By Stuart Campbell, ago

Event: Blash o God

Stuart will be giving a half hour reading and talk about his upcoming novel The Reek of Sulphur at ‘Blash o God with Robert Campbell Henderson & Hugh McMillan’. Blash o God is a collaboration by French based artist, Robert Campbell Henderson and Penpont poet, Hugh McMillan inspired by the Buchanites. This free evening of art and poetry takes place in The Calton Bar from 7pm – 10.30pm on 26th November 2019.

By Stuart Campbell, ago

Anorak Island

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 got it? You can sniff it, pat it, gingerly open it. This gingerly opening it soon degenerates into neurotically checking that the tiny crease on Read more

By Stuart Campbell, ago

RLS took me hostage

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 destined to become a famous writer. Teaching English was only a temporary aberration. All I had to do was read the Great Works of world Read more

By Stuart Campbell, ago

More things in heaven and earth….Myths surrounding schizophrenia

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 someone who is suffering from heart disease or diabetes? Yet mental illness is an illness like any other. If we receive a diagnosis of a Read more

By Stuart Campbell, ago