Rob McInroy's Writing Blog

In Medicine, Money and Murder , Anne Pettigrew continues to examine the murkier side of medical ethics she first explored in her debut novel...

 I gave up writing about politics a few years ago because I realised nothing I said or did would make any difference. Ironically, the fact t...

When I was a bairn, back in the seventies, every year at tattie-howkin time the Meadows in Crieff, my home town, used to be taken over by Sc...

For 37 years, the World’s End murders were a stain on Scotland’s collective conscience, the unsolved rapes and killings of two young women, ...

  The timeframe for my fiction series begins in 1935 and I am now writing about the Second World War. The global political situation of the ...

  For the past three years I’ve been lucky enough to be a judge in the Ringwood Publishing short story competition. I’ve written about the ...

Occasionally, you come across a character who, from the first page, feels like an old friend. Louise Welsh’s Rilke is one such, as is Janet ...

Peter Bennett’s motivation for writing Liberties , he tells the Big Bearded Bookseller in a recent interview , was to be able to tell a stor...