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

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

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When Dorothy Wordsworth wrote her Alfoxden Journal, she might as well have had St Andrews in mind. Like Grasmere, St Andrews has “silver...

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...

Remembering our Rector's Revelation

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." – The...