The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

An Aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.