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WIDELY regarded as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century, the late Roald Dahl was no slouch either when it came to raising…

GARDENING was once described as the new rock and roll.

warned: if there’s a dog-shaped hole in your life that you’re even so much as toying with filling, this story is likely to be the deal clincher...

THIS side of Encyclopedia Britannica, it's unlikely you'll find more more hard facts packed into any other book published this year.

A BOOK offering to help its readers discover the secrets of success seems to be living up to its name with local readers. "The Story of Stuart and…

ARISTOTLE said a lot of clever, quotable things in his time. One of them was this...

IGNORE that old adage about judging books by their covers when picking up this freshly published gem.

A ROSS-SHIRE publisher has pledged to build on its success after learning one of its titles has not made it to a prestigious literary shortlist.

WHEN Verity Walker decided to do some fund-rasing for her Black Isle music project, she turned to her family for help — her great-great-great-grandmother…

SPANNING the centuries and touching on everything from the musings of a Roman soldier to the ASBO generation, Wester Ross writer Ian Blake’s latest collection…

AFTER a career in journalism that began with a student newspaper in South Africa — before he was evicted from the country for his opposition to apartheid…

UNLIKE the plots of his books, disappointingly there is no conspiracy behind Christopher Brookmyre’s change of identity. For 13 books the covers of his…

COULD you fall in love with the man who killed your family? As intriguing tag lines go, that’s up there with the best of them and the ensuing tale doesn't…

LIVING in Scotland’s oldest university town, Shirley McKay does not have to look far for inspiration. McKay, who appears at Inverness Book Festival…

Site Works by Robert Davidson Sandstone Press (£7.99) THE rising profile of Ross-shire publisher Sandstone is cemented by this intriguing insight into…

BOLTON is no-one’s idea of nature’s paradise. So it’s not surprising that when John Davidson left his home town in darkest Lancashire a few years ago…

Could you find your Twitter your way across the world relying on the kindness of strangers?

THIS hugely readable account of the so-called credit crunch is required reading for anyone still stumped by what it's all about.