It's been a horrible year for arts funding in Scotland, but our film festivals and programmers continue to keep the scene ...

Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh's grim, gripping and darkly amusing debut novel, introduced the world to Edinburgh drug users Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie. Now, the award-winning Scottish novelist is ...

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Three comedians will honour writer and artist Alasdair Gray in a new show at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival.

The other is a giant fresco he is adding to each day, with portraits of passersby. He began with the faces of museum staff and curators and hopes to paint the faces of children and their parents ...

Since the publication of his 1981 novel Lanark, Alasdair Gray’s ... A running commentary by Gray himself provides an invaluable account of his early life and schooling, his student days at the Glasgow ...

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The crowd were intellectual – I spotted people reading books by Ben Okri, Toni Morrison and Alasdair Grey – and stylish: think big denim, crumpled macs and art world tote bags. Groups of friends ...

Watch the film here. Adapted from Alasdair Gray’s 1992 eponymous novel, the film explores the child-like wonder of Bella after her miraculous resuscitation, which gives her a second chance at life.