Richard Strachan
I'm a writer who lives and works in Edinburgh. My debut novel The Unrecovered is published by Raven Books/Bloomsbury.
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Style is Morality
For mean and self-serving reasons I really enjoyed this piece published on Substack recently:
Devon Halliday
Literary Fiction Has Lost the Plot
A month ago, I wrote a post called “Why You’re Not Writing.” I wrote it in part to figure ou...
Tunes of Glory, and defeat
Dani Garavelli noted recently on Substack that there was no real longform outlet or national platform for Scottish literary criticism anymore. The Scottish Review of Books is long defunct, the Edinburgh Review likewise, and the current crop...
Translation Anxiety
Last month the Booker Prize Foundation announced that the prize money for the International Booker Prize, now under new sponsorship, would be increased to £100,000. This will be split equally between the writer and translator, which in my u...
The long summer break continues ...
I still haven’t had the chance to write anything new for Substack over the last few weeks. It’s the school summer holidays, I’m in the middle of an interminable DIY redecorating project, I’ve had a recurrence of the infuriating leg pain tha...
Recently reading
When I first started this Substack I thought it would be a combination of essay-outlet, review space and blog: somewhere I could write about the fascinating cultural things I’d been doing; document various book events I’d done to promote my...
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I'm a writer who lives and works in Edinburgh. My debut novel The Unrecovered was published by Raven Books/Bloomsbury in 2025. My second novel Night Fire was published by Raven/Bloomsbury in April 2026.
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