It is a book that has never been out of print and has inspired numerous film and TV adaptations over the years. But while most people will have undoubtedly caught this gripping spy drama on their TV screens at some point in their lives, many might be unaware of its local roots. John Buchan’s The […]
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Pack Men, by Alan Bissett
Originally published in Scotland on Sunday, 18 September 2011. While Jerome K Jerome’s fictionalised travelogue about three male friends (and a dog) journeying along the Thames has been in print constantly since 1889, it’s now largely forgotten how the literary establishment of the day condemned it as vulgar (in all senses of the word) and […]
The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan
Originally published in Scotland on Sunday, 1 May 2011. Jake Marlowe is a werewolf. In fact, when we first meet him, he’s just learned that he’s officially the last werewolf on the planet, thanks to both the genocidal work of the World Organisation for the Control of Occult Phenomena (WOCOP) and the mysterious fact that, […]
Delia Derbyshire
Born: 5 May, 1937, in Coventry Died: 3 July, 2001, aged 64 Best known for her work on the Doctor Who theme, there is little doubt that Delia Derbyshire, who recently died of renal failure, is one of the most important figures in the development of “electronic” music in the UK. Although never a household […]
