Maggie And me & Greenapple Street Blues: Best Dressed Bully; Thunder And Lightning; Hockey Stuck; Crime Wave in Room 7; the Best Tree You Can be; ... Substitute Mother; the More Things Change

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A gifted storyteller, weaving skilfully back and forth through time, and his unfussy prose flows delightfully. Despite the harshness of your hometown and the misery and inner confusion, the hope and the beauty shines through. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. This doesn't last, with experience in life comes a rougher hand, one crafted by hard knocks, rejection and abuse. This book had my emotions all over the place in a good way due to being so well written and having me hooked.

All through the book I felt fear, anger and contempt for the characters knowing that they still exist and are still holding back youngsters quarter of a century later. Further still, there remains alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse and addiction and depression issues that far outweigh the local area.TRNSMT Festival has announced 23 more acts to the already star-studded lineup for this summer’s three-day Glasgow Green extravaganza. Like a cross between Angela’s Ashes and Toast, this recreates a fairly horrific upbringing from the child’s perspective. I devoured this memoir on a flight (and then, in a happy haze, left my iPad in the seat-pocket, argh).

Going on this journey with Damian has been as moving, hilarious and uplifting as I hope and believe the play will be when it gets in front of audiences next Spring. It feels like quite a provocative thing to do in Scotland, but it's not going to be fandom by any means. Maggie Thatcher emerges from the rubble, dusty but defiant and somehow in the living room of 8-year-old Damian Barr in Newarthill.Again, there's so much to say about working so closely together, especially on such intense material, but it's a joy. The irrational guilt which Damien spent his childhood drowning in breaks your heart and the toxic environment surrounding his upbringing. The play is so much more than a memoir, it’s a vital check-in with the nation about what’s important to us, who we are and how we make sense of everything that’s thrown at us in life. The National Theatre of Scotland will be collaborating with film and video students from New College Lanarkshire to create a short documentary about the making of the production.

This book had me hooked and felt it wAs sad to finish it although bit of a feel good book to see how well The author has done for himself considering such a difficult upbringing. He addresses his many childhood challenges in a sensitive, generous way, affording sympathy and understanding to the many people who let him down.I’ll never forget the hard faced bouncers and the sticky carpets, the notoriously disgusting pints of Tennants and the voguing. Thinking back to my own schooling and picking the kids who were the centre of bullying and ridicule. If life was difficult, you came through, and if you know you shouldn’t agree with her, but feel just something in the way of sympathy, that’s okay.