Linda Mclean: 4 books

For many business owners... the words "business plan" conjure up thoughts of a painful, overwhelming task they'd rather avoid at all costs! (And many do!) But any business without a well-thought-out plan is like a ship without a rudder - you'll get SOMEWHERE, certainly, but not likely where...

'Whom shall I believe? And who shall be judge?' Tuesday, 19 August, 1561, 9 a.m. Through the fog a ship arrives in Leith docks, and Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, steps ashore. She is eighteen and on her young shoulders rest the hopes of the Catholic establishment of Europe. The nation...

A sharply perceptive, darkly funny riff on urban isolation by one of Scotland’s leading playwrights. This is a big day for Sadie and Bill; their favourite person is coming to visit. They’ve gone to great lengths to prepare for the occasion. It’s an even bigger day for Jackie; and not...

A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives. A blackly comic play about a grown-up brother and sister who exact revenge on their violent father. Locking him in the coalshed as retribution for years of sniping, bullying and pain, they are both aching to use their...