Squashing Words

Books I’ve Written

Making a Leopard Monster

Superpowers

Steve’s Monsters

Making a Monster

Alien Stink Song

Political poetry and the rise of xenophobia

Jackie Kay on tracing her birth parents

Jonathan Safran Foer on writing his first book in ten years

What to do (and not do) at the Edinburgh Fringe

Irvine Welsh on the contrast between Scotland and America

The Haka at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Rappers: Ransom FA

"I couldn't have loved that family anymore"

Rock 'n' Roll at the Edinburgh Fringe

Marina Warner: 'Fairy tales are in the DNA of cultures'