Behind the Bookshelves With Erin O’Callaghan

Erin O’Callaghan’s interview is available on Substack

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Title page. Sunday afternoon, bookshelves of Scotland with Erin o’callaghan

An alcove of bookshelves filled with books, plants and photo frames. A guitar rests against it.

The alcove from a difference angle and from a little further back. Lit by a standard lamp with an upside down shade

Messy piles of books

Bookshelves of Scotland featuring song writer Erin O’Callaghan who released a brand new EP last week.

Title page - The Bookshops of Scotland, The Book Nook Sterling

Looking into the corner of a room, the left wall and wall ahead are tall bookshelves filled with books

A zoom in on the bookshelves showing a row of spines

A different wall of bookshelves too far away for detail

Behind the Bookshelves with James Oswald

James Oswald’s Behind the Bookshelves interview is available on Substack. Thank you so much for somehow finding the time to do this!

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Join us on Tuesday 21st April when @dougjohnstone.bsky.social will launch the reissue of The Ossians in conversation with @valmcdermid.bsky.social, who has written a new intro for it! 🎉

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Title page - Sunday Afternoon Bookshelves of Scotland with James Oswald

A grey arm chair with a grey cat curled up asleep on the seat. Next to the chair is a wall of bookcases filled with books.

A zoomed out view of the wall of bookcases with the chair and the cat

A ceiling high white bookshelf with shelves of books.

Today’s Bookshelves belong to a hero of mine, @sirbenfro.bsky.social - who generously shared them. Joyous attention should we paid to Smeagol, asleep on the chair, and the painting of Buddug, James’ Maine Coon. Cats always trump bookshelves and I love bookshelves!
Interview available on Tuesday!

What a wonderful thread. Am going to be devastated to visit Glasgow and not get given chips! Thanks for sharing it so beautifully 🍟

A title page - Sunday Afternoon Bookshelves of Scotland with Shona Maclean

Wall of bookshelves with a glass desk in foreground

Several bookshelves filled with books

Several bookshelves, two filled with books one filled with CDs

Today I am delighted to share the bookshelves of Shona Maclean.

Shona is currently on an extensive book tour with her latest release, The Cromarty Library Circle.

You’ll know her previous book, The Bookseller of Inverness; it was Waterstones Scottish book of the year 2023.

Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

Behind the Bookshelves With Elspeth Wilson

Following on from her bookshelf reveal on Sunday, Elspeth Wilson’s ‘Behind the Bookshelves’ interview, is now available on Substack. There are some great book recs …

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This week Elspeth Wilson has shared her bookshelves with us.

The paperback version of her debut novel has just been released.

I first met Elspeth when we worked at the Edinburgh Book Festival. She has helped me with my writing and I know she helps many others.

Careless Talk by Toni Viola - The Crime Writers’ Association The endless rain returned the moment he walked out of Wormwood Scrubs. As he exited the gate, he looked up at the leaden skies. Over the past week, it was either raging torrents or Luftwaffe bombs…

Check out the latest free short story from our CWA community, 'Careless Talk' by Toni Viola. Read this and more fantastic free stories right here.

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Natalie Jayne’s Substack interview is now available… fun 🥳

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BOOK NOW – TOM NEWLANDS & ELSPETH WILSON: Neurodivergent Writers Showcase – The Edinburgh Bookshop TOM NEWLANDS & ELSPETH WILSON: Neurodivergent Writers Showcase – The Edinburgh Bookshop, Tue 3 Mar 2026 - TICKETS FROM £5 Scottish authors Tom Newlands and Elspeth Wilson join us for an evening to dis...

#Edinburgh peeps, more upcoming author event 🚨 klaxon 🚨 news!

Join us on Tuesday March 3rd for a neurodivergent writers showcase, with Tom Newlands & Elspeth Wilson

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#Edimbourg #books #livres #Bruntsfield

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Very, very excited to confirm the launch for my second novel, SOLITARY AGENTS from @headlinebooks.bsky.social, out June 4th (101 days to go!)

I'll be at Waterstones West End in Edinburgh at 7pm, speaking with my good friend @bingewriting.bsky.social!

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The Bookshelves of Scotland | Substack Scottish writers, their books and their bookshelves

Last weeks Bookshelves interview on Substack with Elaine Thomson, author of Hawthorn, a Scottish Ghost Story

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We are delighted to announce the first Reading Room event in Melrose and it features two local heroes of Scottish crime fiction!
Join Neil Broadfoot and Ed James as they celebrate the publication of Neil's latest novel, Exit Wounds, with a lively look at their writing and Scottish crime fiction!

I’ve been running a feature called Bookshelves of Scotland on Instagram. Writers of Scotland have shared their bookshelves.

This week my guest was Natalie Jayne Clark, the author of The Malt Whisky Murders.

#writersofscotland #bookshelves #bookshelfie #scottishwriters

I like baking because it gives me time with my thoughts. And the end result is nice.

Off to Detroit in May to see the Diego Rivera murals at the institute of arts, with my own eyes.

#scotwriterpitch2025

The most famous artist painting a mural in the most famous building. It makes the art pages until it makes the front pages.

Diego Rivera paints Lenin in his Rockefeller mural in 1930’s NY and has no idea of the trouble coming. Neither does his 25 year old wife Frida Kahlo.

All the colours of the dark by Chris Whitaker

Watching the 1996 Top of the Pops and realising from the top 40 that this was when my husband & I met. So many songs that are the start of us and remain with us. We bought each other CDs of many of them at the time. We did then break up for 2 years 😬

I would put money on having covid and yet when I test i’m negative. This is not a mere cold nor the flu!

My inbox is so boring. Black Friday or Christmas. What have I got wrong?????

A couple of thoughts on my first post. This cold sucks. Feedback that isn’t constructive is just destructive. Currently feeling like never writing again. Oh and Dylan better not win Bake Off or I’ll kick off.