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On the guest page, you can find interviews with writers and publishers and opinion pieces.
Featured image of Interview: John Mitchinson, co-founder of Unbound

Interview: John Mitchinson, co-founder of Unbound

JOHN MITCHINSON is a writer and publisher and the co-founder of Unbound, the award-winning crowdfunding platform for books. He helped to create the BBC TV show QI and co-wrote the best-selling series of QI books. As a publisher, he worked in senior positions at Harvill, Orion and Cassell. Before that he was Waterstone’s first marketing director. He is co-host of Read More

Featured image of Ever Dundas: An Interview

Ever Dundas: An Interview

At the 2017 Dundee Literary Festival’s event for debut novelists, Ever Dundas is joined on stage by Gillian Best and Helen McClory. Dundas reads first, introducing her book Goblin. An hour later, she sits across from me in a small cafe area below the hall she has spoken in. There is a shift between the Read More

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Sara Baume: An interview

Storm Brian is rampaging across Ireland.* Works about bad weather, I test myself: Bad Weather Collage, Naomi Vona.¹ A black and white photograph of a man in a suit. There is a blue paper cloud above his head and the head itself is obscured by strips of paper in white, pink and yellow. From the Read More

Featured image of Re-expression of the Orphic Myth: An interview with David Kinloch

Re-expression of the Orphic Myth: An interview with David Kinloch

In a mizzling rain that brings darkness to the red heartstone of the city, I set out to meet David Kinloch to interview him about his Ars Poetica in light of his recent publication In Search of Dustie-Fute, shortlisted only this morning for the Saltire Poetry Prize. We have arranged to meet in “Tinderbox”, Ingram Read More

Featured image of A point of view: the Man Booker Prize

A point of view: the Man Booker Prize

With the release of the 2017 Man Booker Prize shortlist thoughts must turn not only to the books listed but to the prize itself.   Amongst the myriad of book prizes from local to global, from first novels to specific genres, why does this one stand out? How was this prize was inaugurated? British literary prizes Read More

Featured image of Kirsty Gunn in Conversation with Cynthia Rogerson, University of Dundee, May 2017

Kirsty Gunn in Conversation with Cynthia Rogerson, University of Dundee, May 2017

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/739M7ESJ8l8″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] (This is a lightly edited transcript of the interview; to view the whole interview, please click image above) Cynthia Rogerson: I’m Cynthia Rogerson. I write novels and short stories. I’m from California and live in the Highlands. I’ve been there for a long, long time. Probably almost thirty-five years. Kirsty Read More

Featured image of Kirsty Gunn and Cameron Twiddy in conversation with James Kelman

Kirsty Gunn and Cameron Twiddy in conversation with James Kelman

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/D-pm-6mVDyk” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] This is an edited filmed interview of a conversation that took place between Kirsty Gunn, Cameron Twiddy and James Kelman in October 2016. Cameron Twiddy’s personal account of that interview was posted on DURA, 28 July 2017.

Featured image of An Interview with Martin Cathcart Froden

An Interview with Martin Cathcart Froden

Martin Cathcart Froden’s debut historical crime novel “The Devil take the Hindmost” won the 2015 Dundee  International Book Prize of five thousand pounds and publication with Freight Books. Set in the velodromes of London and the Midlands in the late nineteen twenties, it follows the adventures of a young highlander. Paul arrives at Kings Cross Read More

Featured image of An audience with James Kelman

An audience with James Kelman

  I’m about to interview James Kelman, inarguably one of the most important writers working in Britain today. As I climb the stairs of the University of Dundee’s Tower Building, I’m feeling terribly anxious. Over the course of his career, Kelman has garnered a bit of a reputation for giving quite thorny interviews and I’m Read More

Featured image of Edward Small in conversation with Crime Novelist, Claire MacLeary

Edward Small in conversation with Crime Novelist, Claire MacLeary

[iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/1ILItl7IW1Q” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe] (This is a lightly edited transcript of the interview; to view the whole interview, please click image above) Edward Small: Hello. I’m Eddie Small. I lecture in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee and we’re here today to do an interview with one of our past students on behalf Read More

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