Malachy Tallack’s 60 Degrees North received a tremendous response when read on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Each day, the award-winning young actor Sandy Grierson read from the adaptation and you can listen to all five now on the BBC website.
Members of the public are to be given a chance to make a stitch on new welcome panels for the Great Tapestry of Scotland before it moves to its new, purpose built home in Galashiels.
In 1999 the winner of a national writing competition, Writing Scotland’s Future, was only 11 years old. But her winning entry was strong and on 1 July that year, her poem was read out at the Official Opening of Scotland’s new Parliament. Jan Rutherford was present.
PPW’s Jan Rutherford has been shortlist for the UK’s Publishers’ Publicity Circle Annual Award.