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Thrilling Huckleberry Finn 'reimagining' is the stuff of Indiana Jones

James Percival Everett Mantle, £20 Review by Rosemary Goring “You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but that ain’t no matter.” So begins Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which the eponymous hero is allowed to tell his own story. Huck Finn is perhaps the most famous and critically celebrated of all literary sequels.

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REVIEW Atmospheric new Scottish crime thriller - and its sleazy Tory MP- is intriguing

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JK Rowling: Harry Potter stars would not be forgiven if they apologise to me

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'Scotland used to feel sorry for itself and blame the English. I think that’s gone'

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REVIEW Andrew O’Hagan's Caledonian Road is a blistering state of the nation novel

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Poem of the week: A sunny day in Scotland's dark heart

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Updated 'Arrest me:' JK Rowling mocks Scotland's new hate crime legislation

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Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart criticises politicians after Aye Write cancelled

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Exclusive 'A real kick in the teeth': Scots authors' fury over cancellation of Aye Write

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FM has confidence in Creative Scotland despite porn and book festival funding rows

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Aye Write book festival cancelled after Creative Scotland rejects funding bid

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BEST OF SCOTLAND Meet the Glaswegian author and artist drawing parallels to Shuggie Bain

It's uncomfortable, shocking, sickening even - but this is a book all men should read

Scots author conjures up claustrophobia and paranoia in wartime crime mystery

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Paisley Book Festival: Who is on and where to get tickets

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RAB'S SCOTTISH ICONS Brigadoon farce shows Scots are last people on Earth it’s permissible to titter at

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'This is one of the most eagerly awaited Scottish thrillers of the year'

JK Rowling will not delete posts which could breach ‘ludicrous’ hate crime laws

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REVIEW When women fight back: Inside the mind of 21st century warrior-queens

'He should be on every curriculum' - Kevin McKenna on Scotland's one literary icon

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REVIEW The history of Scotland in all its drama and guilty secrets - carved in stone

Should 'lost' Gabriel García Márquez story ever have been published?

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Poor Things and its undeniable connection to Glasgow

REVIEW Amid a monstrous Byron and the self-absorbed Shelleys, a woman's life was shattered

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Exclusive Critics of Poor Things dumping Glasgow are 'navel gazing'

Poet Soukaina Habiballah granted UK visa for poetry event after Home Office u-turn

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Leading Arabic poet Soukaina Habiballah barred from Scots festival by Home Office

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The Scot who took on Trump: 'I see parallels with him and Logan Roy in Succession'

REVIEW Scots musical genius was a self-destructive drunk - with a dark misogynist streak

'A novel of sex, siblings and the end of the world' - 10 new books to read this month

Scots poet's first collection becomes instant bestseller

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Sponsored Luxurious coffee table book is a new chapter for fashion trailblazer Belstaff

Scots author's historical crime novel is pacey, powerful and pungent

REVIEW Horrifically average: Inside story of the ordinary Germans who fell for Hitler

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Damian Barr: 'We all move through life carrying our past selves with us'

How Ally McCoist inspired a new Scottish crimefighter

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Family donates ‘lost’ manuscript of classic Scottish novel to university archive

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REVIEW Scottish best-selling author is back with a new darkly compelling thriller

A woman in control of her own destiny is surely a breeding ground for sin

BOOK REVIEW Has our sanitised approach to death made us less accepting of its inevitability?

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REVIEW Injustice and barbarism on the tip of Scotland

Len Pennie: 'There is still that voice in my head: I don’t think anyone likes you'

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