We’re delighted to launch our latest Literature Talks commission today – a timely reminder of the power of books and imagination to transport us to different places and times by writer and doctor Gavin Francis.

Read The Armchair Island Traveller by Gavin Francis

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Literature Talks is a series of pieces commissioned by LAS, asking Scotland’s leading writers and literature producers to reflect on an aspect of Scotland’s literary landscape.