“A story unfolds. It doesn’t fall into your lap, all sorted. You miss the significant bits, or you might hoard and file details that just don’t seem to matter.” So says the idiosyncratic narrator of Ian Stephen’s wonderful novel, A Book of Death and Fish, and the author certainly follows this non-pattern of writing himself. Read More
The Land Agent is the third novel in The Glasgow to Galilee trilogy, and is a fictional narrative set within an historical context. Each of the books in The Glasgow to Galilee trilogy – The Credit Draper, The Liberation of Celia Khan and The Land Agent – can be read either in sequence or as Read More
Graham Lironi makes a noteworthy contribution to the large quantities of crime fiction continuously being published with his short and entertaining mystery-thriller Oh Marina Girl. Lironi, once a student in Dundee, delivers a book which is rich in narrative skills, a strong sense of character and unpredictable plot twists- whilst taking a closer look at Read More
Even for leading Edinburgh crime reporter, Doug McGregor – a man who lives off the brutality of others – the sight of his editor’s organs spilling onto the desk before him is not easily forgotten. Nor should it be, the killer’s shots announcing the start of a deadly race against time. No matter how random Read More
This is an edited transcript of Alex Henry in conversation with Neil Broadfoot for DURA conducted at the Dundee Literary Festival, 24 October 2014. The full audio recording can be heard by clicking on the video image. Reviews of Neil Broadfoot’s two novels, Falling Fast and The Storm can also be read on DURA. Alex Read More