Check out this campaign. So important for cinema to reach rural communities 🫶

Last orders... The Squirrel Bar, in Stevenson Street, Calton, is pulling down its shutters for good. The site has been licensed since 1857. Pic: The Squirrel, and street drinkers, 1980, by Raymond Depardon

⭐️The finalists have been selected for the 2024 McIlvanney Prize! Congrats! CARNIVAL OF LIES Cesare Aldo returns 26.6.25 A Divine Fury Pan Macmillan Chris Brookmyre The Cracked Mirror (Sphere) Val McDermid Past Lying (Sphere) Abir Mukherjee Hunted (Vintage) Kim Sherwood A Spy Like Me HarperCollins Creative Scotland

🍌🥐 GIVEAWAY🥑🌮 To celebrate 400 reviews on Goodreads, I’m giving away these four copies of THE REDEMPTION OF MORGAN BRIGHT. In a week I’ll pick winners. Postage included. Just Follow, RT, like.

The great Bob Fulton has passed away this week at the age of 101. I only got to know him during the last decade of his life, and those years alone could fill up the pages of a wonderfully surreal biography. Bob was larger than life. 1/

Hey, I'm seven followers from 5k so it's giveaway time!! Follow me and retweet this to win a copy of my debut horror collection HUNTING BY THE RIVER. Giveaway ends 12th September! Open to anywhere in the world.

WIN! - A Copy of the Deluxe Edition of Jamie xx's 'In Waves' Jamie xx's second solo LP drops next Friday, and we're giving away a copy of the triple LP edition featuring a disc of bonus tracks. Simply like, retweet, and give us a follow to be entered. normanrecords.com/records/203718…

Congratulations Chris Brookmyre, winner of the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize, 2024, with The Cracked Mirror ⭐️🙌🏼

How amazing is this? 😍 The Bluebells and The Every Voice Community Choir perform Young at Heart at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. 📽️ Robert Perry

#WIN 🎉 To celebrate #BloodyScotland this weekend, we’re giving you the chance to win a mystery Baskerville book bundle! To enter: 🖤RT this post 🕵️Follow @baskervillejmp 📚Tag a friend who loves crime fiction UK only. 18+. Closes 18/9/24. Full T&Cs: johnmurraypress.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

Two excellent reads, Minnie agrees! Looking forward to chairing Stu Turton & Chris Brookmyre Bloody Scotland 1.30pm today. Join us in person or follow Minnie's example & tune in online! bloodyscotland.com/chris-brookmyr…

Have read the second in John Boyne quartet in a single sitting. Brilliant read.

Presenting the #BookerPrize2024 shortlist. Find out more about all the books and authors: thebookerprizes.com/bp2024

Brutal Glasgow exhibition is officially open! Arrive at Glasgow City Heritage Trust, grab a set of headphones, scan the QR code and enter the world of brutalist Glasgow.

First chapter of the 2008 Booker Prize winner ‘The White Tiger’ by Aravind Adiga in some Autumn Glasgow sun. Great read so far!

Haul from this weekends record fair at Bellahouston. Original first albums from Billy Bragg, Aztec Camera and The Waterboys too.

A glimpse of the mess created when the M8 was driven through Cowcaddens in the late '60s and early '70s. I've marked Stow College as a point of reference. Pic from #Glasgow Motorway Archive.

This is fantastic.

Can’t believe I haven’t listened to Aztec Camera’s first album, High land, hard rain’ before - what a better! Going to have the hunt down the others now!

Have read Caledonian Road and Secret of Blythswood Sq is on the list - will check out the others!