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James Robertson

Pushing boundaries: Alan Riach on three of Scotland's most accomplished novelists

Shock tactics and the virtue of patience in Scotland's top fiction writers

Back in the Day: James Lind – the Scotsman considered a medical hero

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Desires, needs and liberation – the characters in the work of two Scottish authors

Three writers whose work pre-eminently displays the plurality of Scotland

Two modern fiction writers whose work inhibits different areas of Scottish life

Exploring an almost unknown figure who visited Scotland as pope

Back in the Day: Tommy Douglas – the Scotsman who gave Canada free healthcare

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My Scotland ... and Their England – Our second of two essays on AG Macdonell

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The Scottish fiction writer with much to tell about the times in which he lived

The value of freeing the imagination

What makes a Scottish bestseller?

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Why keeping the conversation going is so important

Alan Riach looks at two startlingly different 20-century Scottish novelists

Bringing legend to life: John Purser on JD Fergusson and the Celtic Revival

How Scottish Ballet's predecessor Celtic Ballet danced to a different tune

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How John Duncan painted the stuff of legends during the Celtic Revival

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Alan Riach on George Mackay Brown and Iain Crichton Smith

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Composer and musicologist John Purser explores the maths and secret symbols behind the Enlightenment

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