As Scots go to the polls to vote on independence, we select our favourite Scottish novels

Salmond says Burns would vote Yes, but living writers are not all on the same page

Raised in Colombia and Portugal, amongst other places, Pollyanna McIntosh is a true child of the world – but she also resolutely Scottish and proud of it

Rob Doyle’s book is a rough but powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s ‘Bad Day in Blackrock’ to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche

Judging by his new novel, it may be time for ‘Trainspotting’ author Irvine Welsh to pipe down

Aged 24, Imogen Poots is already an industry veteran with credits alongside Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Colin Farrell and Christopher Walken, to name just a few. Yet she manages to keep it refreshingly real at the top of the acting pile

Unaccountable elites will always do stupid things, writes Fintan O’Toole

James McAvoy, the Scottish star of Danny Boyle’s new film Trance, reveals why he prefers fish and chips and nights in to glitzy premieres