"Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage" - Don Paterson, 'The White Lie'. In the midst of autumn the many lovely libraries of Glasgow are even more tempting than usual... and there's something especially secret and special about the libraries that have maintained that dim,... Continue Reading →
Secret Style Icon No.2: Lorna Sage
Lorna Sage's daughter, in this wonderful article, describes an early memory of 'clomping alongside' her mother on a walk across a park, in ugly Clark's shoes, while Lorna was 'barefoot and wearing a slinky catsuit zipped down to her naval'. Lorna Sage wrote about Plato, John Milton, Doris Lessing and Angela Carter as Professor of English... Continue Reading →