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My Big Issue reviews of Michael Paterniti and Hanya Yanagihara

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

A book about cheese? Kind of, yes. A book about eating turtle meat? After a fashion. Read about them here.

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THE JUMP – first draft done!

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

  Just typed ‘THE END’ on the first/second draft of my next, next novel, THE JUMP. It’s set in the shadow of the Forth Road Bridge, involves suicide, and is as cheery as that sounds. Actually, though it is the … Continue reading →

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Something I wrote about Scotland Writers FC

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

Some of you might know that I was one of the co-founders of the Scotland Writers football team. Here we are in this picture, all happy cos we had just beaten Austria. Anyway, I wrote a blog about it over … Continue reading →

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My Big Issue reviews of Christos Tsiolkas and Pamela Erens

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

Aye so, here is my Big Issue column reviewing Barracuda (Atlantic) by Christos Tsiolkas (Atlantic) and The Virgins (John Murray) by Pamela Erens. Both fine in their own, very different ways.

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In which I have a wee pop at Jonathan Lethem’s new book

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

Aye so, I didn’t much like Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens. Here’s my review in the Independent on Sunday today. Why do authors feel the need to write the Great American Novel? Just tell stories, guys.

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Thank you, Readers Digest International!

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

I’ll be honest, until recently I didn’t even realise that Readers Digest had international editions, but it does, loads of em! And several of them have bought condensed rights for Gone Again, meaning that abridged translations of the novel are … Continue reading →

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My interview with Christos Tsiolkas

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

I had the good fortune to meet up with terrific Aussie author Christos Tsiolkas last weekend while he was in Edinburgh for an event. I was interviewing him for the Independent on Sunday, mostly about his new novel Barracuda. He … Continue reading →

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Thank you library users!

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

It’s that time of year again when writers scurry over to the PLR website and check how much in the way of library royalties they’ve made. You might not realise it but we get something like just over 6p per … Continue reading →

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Germaine Greer planted some trees…

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

…and then she wrote this book about it and then I came along and read it and liked it and reviewed it in the Independent on Sunday. Crazy. Dx

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THE BEACHCOMBER – An Old Short Story

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Doug Johnstone

I was going through some old files on the computer and found this lurking at the back. It’s a piece of flash fiction I wrote that first appeared in The Herald in October 2006. I had completely forgotten about it. … Continue reading →

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