Sandstone Press: material released under FOI
Bear with us, there’s a LOT to add! We’re also awaiting the outcome of a validated appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner after Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) withheld key applications and assessments or fully/partially redacted them. Publishers should be funded on merit, not because public agencies are prepared to mis-score their funding applications or…
SCANDAL: Scottish Book Trust cost Scottish Government and Postcode Culture Trust £’0,000s by misrepresenting deal it ‘negotiated’ with CEO’s undisclosed business partner Birlinn
Birlinn pocketed up to £43k EXCESS profit for the Muriel Spark Centenary project fronted by Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister. Fiona Hyslop MSP, who was Cabinet Secretary at the time, has refused to recover the public funds lost as a result of SBT’s deception. Scotland’s charity regulator, Scottish Government-funded OSCR, has also refused to act…
Creative Scotland ignored Sandstone’s false claims to approve bailout
Regulars will know that we have challenged Creative Scotland (CS) over its funding of unviable private company Sandstone Press. Sandstone is CS’s most-funded publisher. CS, and its predecessor SAC, have subsidised it annually since 2006. Together they have added £0.41m to Sandstone’s balance sheet, only for Sandstone to lose £0.34m of that. CS gave Sandstone…
PUBLISHED TODAY: Highest Lives – Gordon Brown’s 4th Craig McIntyre thriller
Is history’s most outrageous serial killer on the loose? Gordon Brown’s new Craig McIntyre thriller, Highest Lives, is published TODAY. Craig is used to being hunted. Now he’s the hunter… Darkest Thoughts, Furthest Reaches, Deepest Wounds…Highest Lives.
Gordon Brown on (blog) tour
Top conspiracy-thriller novelist Gordon Brown, author of the Craig McIntyre series, is off on tour with his latest book, Deepest Wounds. And already it is garnering rave reviews. Gordon’s namesake, the former PM, might appreciate that there’s a little bit of politics (as Ben Elton used to say) in the Craig McIntyre novels. The underhand sort.…
Margaret Collyer: pioneer in the time of the Suffragettes
Margaret Collyer (1872-1945) is renowned as a London Royal Academy of Art-trained artist – her paintings can be found around the world and include the acclaimed The Lord of the Isles. Her artistic output, however, masks that hers was a life lived in two halves. And that lesser-known half is now drawing a lot of…