By Victoria Castro Is St Andrews Scotland’s Forks? Thanks to our (mostly) incredible weather and the surprising presence of successful twenty-year-olds and young entrepreneurs, the parallels are there. If a St Andrews student speaks as if they have lived several different lives while shining under blue sunlight, it might just be that they are a Scottish Cullen. Credits:   The Sweet Savory Life Until very recently, I was one of those people   who had never seen Twilight . Sure

Last year marked the arrival of a new ‘dark academia’ novel set in St Andrews: When We Were Killers  by C. F. Barrington. The novel found a home in bookshop window displays for months, and was even named Waterstones’ Scottish Book of the Month in May 2025. When We Were Killers  certainly received a positive marketing push, but is it actually worth your time? Window display in Topping and Company, (January 2026) The novel’s protagonist is Finn Nethercott, an ‘outcast’ first-ye

With winter at its height, there are many rainy days ahead of us, and to relieve us all of hours of doomscrolling, here are 3 book recommendations exploring themes of life and death. Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, and Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin can be read in one day and I deem to be a 4 or 5-star read.   Let’s all take a break from our usual consumerism habits and endless scrolling. Reading is so much more worth your t

By Victoria Castro English students will be familiar with the collection; Divinity students will be familiar with its title; all of us are familiar with the author’s name. Ernest Hemingway was barely 23 years old when he produced in our time . He was armed with only two of the many manuscripts he had written after he lost  his juvenilia in a trip to Geneva, and with his experience as a journalist  for the Toronto Star Weekly . This became the basis for his first collection of

Off Greyfriars Garden sits an idyllic bookstore. Its shelves are lined with first-edition books signed by their authors. Rolling ladders...

Inspired by a Jack Edwards YouTube video, I decided to look back on all my old notebooks from first and second year to reflect on all the...

Though we are not in the thick of it yet, I bet you are — just as I am — dreading that point in the semester where we lose our will to...