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.
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…
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…
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…