Chapman expands to 144 pages, for more scope and innovation. Here is the wit and wisdom of Alasdair Gray and his Book of Prefaces. Angus Calder revels in Gray s more mysterious modi operandi and his ability to make all literature his own. Dave Manderson explores his joyous defiance of all categorisation, establishing his major talent, his dizzying artistic versatility. RLS Award winners Chris Dolan and Maggie Graham give a taste of work written in Hotel Chevillon. Glasgow writer Bill Keys is appreciated by Stephen Mulrine with poetry and fiction and David Purves pays tribute to great Doric poet Flora Garry. Peter Cameron translates Baudelaire into Scots, plus fiction and reviews from Cuban poet Virgil Suares, Iron Press s Peter Mortimer, Stuart B Campbell, Ken Cockburn, Jonathan Falla with his hilarious Topping out for Scotland and much else.