http://news.scotsman.com/NewsFront.aspx?SectionID=6996 features en-GB Copyright 2007, Johnston Press Plc jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk jpnm.coordinator@jpress.co.uk NS http://news.scotsman.com/GetFeed.aspx?sectionid=6996&format=rss Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:30:57 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://news.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/NS_rss.gif http://news.scotsman.com 281 70 http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Writers39.5886342.jp TO launch our three-part round-up of the most engrossing reads of 2009, we asked our favourite writers for their festive gift advice http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Writers39.5886342.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Impressionists-The-avant-gardeners.5886758.jp WITH brilliant colour, superstar artists and a special focus on the nation's most popular pastime, this exhibition can hardly fail, writes Tim Cornwell http://news.scotsman.com/features/Impressionists-The-avant-gardeners.5886758.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Celebrity.5886344.jp STIRRED BUT NOT SHAKEN BY KEITH FLOYD WITH JAMES STEEN (Sidgwick and Jackson, £18.99) http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Celebrity.5886344.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Fiction.5886338.jp ANY year that sees the publication of a novel that one can unhesitatingly judge to be great, belonging to the same demanding but rewarding company as Proust, Conrad and Thomas http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Fiction.5886338.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/-Books-of-the-year.5886341.jp LYTTON Strachey's belief that biography should "shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses" is credited with beginning the art of modern biography http://news.scotsman.com/features/-Books-of-the-year.5886341.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Emun-Elliott-Keep-an-eye.5887231.jp DO NOT be too concerned if the name Emun Elliott doesn't mean that much to you at this precise moment. Fear not if you wouldn't recognise the dashing young actor with http://news.scotsman.com/features/Emun-Elliott-Keep-an-eye.5887231.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Nonfiction.5886337.jp THERE can be no excuses this year for losing sight of the real meaning of Christmas, thanks to Diarmaid MacCulloch's A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, £35). http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Nonfiction.5886337.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Before-you-rush-out-to.5887178.jp PETS bought as presents can be a recipe for disaster, with animals often neglected and owners left counting the cost of a badly chosen pet, according to veterinary charity PDS http://news.scotsman.com/features/Before-you-rush-out-to.5887178.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Food-Real-men-do-.5887176.jp MALE chefs can be a macho lot. Their workplaces are often uncomfortable, pressurised environments populated by a disproportionately high percentage of other males. http://news.scotsman.com/features/Food-Real-men-do-.5887176.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Travel.5886345.jp LIFE is too short, and the world so vast, that even a Euromillions lottery win would leave you unable to reach its myriad corners in a lifetime. Readers may venture forth by p http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Travel.5886345.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Wildlife.5886343.jp FOR all the budding ornithologists out there, it will be hard to beat the RSPB Handbook of Scottish Birds (Christopher Helm, £9.99) by Peter Holden and Stuart Housde http://news.scotsman.com/features/Books-of-the-year-Wildlife.5886343.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Help-is-at-hand-for.5887190.jp THEY typically emerge in the depths of December, an odd species with terror in their eyes, sweat across their brow and a pair of ladies' pants in their hands. http://news.scotsman.com/features/Help-is-at-hand-for.5887190.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Classical-reviews-Scottish-Chamber-Orchestra.5886752.jp QUEEN'S HALL, EDINBURGH **** http://news.scotsman.com/features/Classical-reviews-Scottish-Chamber-Orchestra.5886752.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/The-spirit-of-Chic-still.5887160.jp Just Daft: The Comic Genius of Chic Murray, £14.99 DVD, Just Daft: The Chic Murray Story, £14.99, and Chic Murray's Funnyosities, £6.99, are all published by Birlinn. http://news.scotsman.com/features/The-spirit-of-Chic-still.5887160.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Pets-Stuart-McMorrow-answers-your.5887174.jp Q My two-year-old lop rabbit has been sneezing for the past two days. His ears also feel quite hot and he's scratching them quite vigorously and I've noticed white res http://news.scotsman.com/features/Pets-Stuart-McMorrow-answers-your.5887174.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://news.scotsman.com/features/Gig-review-James-Morrison.5886723.jp SECC, GLASGOW ** http://news.scotsman.com/features/Gig-review-James-Morrison.5886723.jp Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT