All the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott book prize - The 12 will be cut down to a shortlist in May, with the ...

Twelve novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after a famous Scottish writer. The judges of the Walter ...

Born in Perth in 1875, son of a Presbyterian minister, he went to Glasgow University at 17 and on to Oxford, where he was President of the Union and won the Newdigate Prize for poetry ... of Montrose ...

Eminent Sindhi poet Allah Bux aka Dr Akash Ansari died on Saturday. He was 69. Police have opened a probe to dig out the facts behind his death apparently caused by a fire in his room. The poet ...

This article offers 20 carefully curated romantic poems that can elevate your celebration, making your partner feel cherished and special. From works by Shakespeare to Rupi Kaur, these verses are ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Walter Scott publishes Waverley The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate ...

Scott poems a poem that resembles a heavy-metal song and it gets an A in English class, but causes his parents some concern.

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, after being approached by John Forster and the poet's son, readily agreed and the funeral was strictly private, following Dickens' own instructions. The ...