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“A Falling Down for the tech bro age, buy one of our finest and most challenging novelists” IAN RANKIN

Help a lassie and the Scots leid oot and preorder ma buik fur bairns aboot a black moggie! #OorMoggies @luathpress.bsky.social

On Geek Grotto this week, I discuss the reveals coming out of Transformers Day, Fortnite Vs Roblox and spotlight Flim-Flam in Obscure Character Corner!
Tune in at 2pm every Saturday on SHMUFM: DAB & 99.8FM in Aberdeen, online at www.shmu.org.uk or via your smart speaker. 
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An annual highlight is upon us once again!

A #poem for #NationalFoxDay! 🦊 #fox #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen

On Saturday 27th September, please join @sashadugdale.bsky.social will be at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work. The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️ poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/s...

Fascist Yoga feature from Spanish newspaper El Pais is now also available in English translation on their website. english.elpais.com/eps/2025-09-...

Caithness is where devolution does not work. What we see here in operation, in relation to renewable energy, is the least expensive option and the shortcuts taken in order to achieve it. It is short-sightedness almost to the point of blindness. bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...

Things are done to us, not by us bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/17/t...

Times like these we could use Sandy Christie

Could do with seeing Sandy Christie again.

💕 Martin Bennett

The number of lobbyists who are related to British MPs has risen 18 per cent since last year, with agencies such as Cavendish, SEC Newgate, Hanover and Flint Global having close connections to Westminster, PRWeek can reveal. web.archive.org/web/20250910...

The longlists for the Saltires – Scotland’s national book awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, & research – have been announced. www.thesaltires.org.uk

TANKtv interview with me about my book Fascist Yoga - edited down by the magazine to a short form piece from much longer answers. archive.ph/Pnqsz

Our friends at Literature Alliance Scotland have opened applications to the pilot programme, To Be Continued. Have a look and see if this could help you or send to someone who might also benefit. Applications close Friday 3 October 2025. literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/to-be-contin...

“SANGSCHAW… gave other writers permission to push the boundaries of Scots as a language of literature, capable of expressing deep thought and not just for light comedy or mawkish whimsy” Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hugh MacDiarmid’s first book www.thenational.scot/culture/2543...

Pre-orders are now open for Memory and Magic, the debut novel of American author D. M. Beucler - stunning cover created by the amazing Tara Bush! Out Oct 7, 2025. www.lunapresspublishing.com/novels @dmbeucler.bsky.social @tarabush.bsky.social #romantasy #debut2025 #booksfromscotland #bloodmagic

Nobody does it better than @stewarthome.bsky.social

The Secretary of State for Late Britain bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/09/09/t...

Join us to launch Steve Malmude's new collection Red Carpet with editor Miles Champion on 24 September at 7pm BST!💻 📖 More information and tickets:🎟️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/red-c.

Brutha Voodoo's Playlist Obscura Tracklist 9th September 2025 playlistobscura.blogspot.com/2025/09/brut... Featuring music by @somehappything.bsky.social @markcorrinmusic.bsky.social @redcavalry.bsky.social @trademarkissues.bsky.social @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social

Interesting fact but in Britain you are never more than 25 feet away from a Stewart Home book.

Hey friends💙💛 Finally, I wrote and published my new book about Donbas It’s the most personal thing I’ve ever done A story of childhood in a gray city Of coal dust, broken glass, silence and strength. Of how the war begar Long before the full-scale invasion. buymeacoffee.com/angelica.sha...

"For anyone committed to social justice, the saga of the Kirkgate benches is an affront to community diversity and integration. It was a violent act of social cleansing, a silent declaration that some people’s comfort is more valuable than other people’s survival" www.discontent.wtf/news/holding...

In the quiet lull after the festivals, there's still plenty of book launches and poetry nights on offer across Scotland this September – our round-up involves events at @lighthousebks.bsky.social, @womenslibrary.bsky.social and more 📚

The first comprehensive study of women guerrillas in Iranian Kurdistan Women of Komala is OUT NOW: www.plutobooks.com/978074535082...

Deadline Today (Sept. 6th): PARANORMAL Short Story Festival fantasyscififestival.com/paranormal-s... A paranormal story is work of fiction that explores phenomena and beings that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding performed by professional actor and turned into a promotional video

Bella is supported only by its readers. We don’t have corporate backers and we don’t take advertising, so we rely entirely on your support. Please give whatever you can and support independent Scottish journalism: bellacaledonia.org.uk/donate

El Mundo on Fascist Yoga (in Spanish). “The black book of yoga: it is neither ancient nor Eastern, and it was spread by Nazis and swindlers.” www.elmundo.es/papel/histor...

Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane. Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff, sat on the heather a hanlawhile… —Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus” Watch an animation of the poem, read by Garioch: 2/3 scotlandonscreen.org.uk/browse-films...

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

AI company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B to settle a lawsuit with book authors 📚 • Accused of training Claude on thousands of pirated books • Payout equals $3K per book • The largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history

A federal judge ruled that fair use allowed Anthropic to train Claude on copyrighted books—but decided to send misguided “piracy” claims to trial. Facing copyright's ridiculous statutory penalties, Anthropic agreed to pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/...

AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:

I don’t need it but I bought it anyway because what kind of good time can you have for £1.49 these days anyway?

My novel 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess is the weirdest book you’ll ever read about north east Scotland’s stone circles. You can buy it here (and on many other platforms): www.alibris.co.uk/booksearch?m...

Ewan Morrison said in his novel FOR EMMA that this would happen, ie tech bosses battling over who could achieve the fastest “high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces”. Come and ask Ewan himself tomorrow at EIBF (3pm) what the future holds next. www.ft.com/content/0448...

Lesley Storm 1953 - 2025 www.scotsman.com/news/people/...

Lesley Storm 1953 - 2025 💗 www.scotsman.com/news/people/...

Moe Moussa of Gaza Poets and Neil Young of Drunk Muse Poet and publisher meet for the first time, great moment Palestine Museum Edinburgh

It's congratulations to the LAS 2025 Writer Bursaries awardees. What do we think? Will random selection of eligible candidates work better than curated panel judging when it comes to awarding of financial support? literaturealliancescotland.co.uk/congratulati...

Palestine Museum Scotland

Palestine Museum Edinburgh 13a Dundas Street This show is free

Edinburgh - this Book Fringe chat with Mahmoud & Matthew about Gaza and Palestinian culture is Tuesday 12th, 1pm, and it is FREE, join us! (or watch online! Because yes, it'll be livestreamed like all our Book Fringe gigs!) lighthousebookshop.com/events/stori...

Stewart Home Fascist Yoga follow @stewarthome.bsky.social

Palestine Museum Edinburgh 13a Dundas Street Show is free