For a period of at least 12 years, The Scottish Review of Books magazine, edited and co-founded by Alan Taylor and by Rosemary Goring, was managed by Jan Rutherford.

This literary review contained critical writings, articles, extracts, new writing, diary and more and was published 4 times a year. The magazine was designed for print by Caleb Rutherford.

Publication was supported in part by Creative Scotland but subscribers, advertising and well-wisher donations covered a huge part of publishing and distributing the magazine on a regular basis.

Over the years, the Board of the magazine included (in addition to Alan, Jan and Rosemary) Harry Reid, Anna Marshall, Mark Douglas-Home, Ian Wall, Hugh Andrew and more. All were intelligent, well-read and astonishingly well connected – from a wide variety of backgrounds and covering a fair span of age. All gave tirelessly of their time and although all contributors were always paid, the Board members were not.

The full archive of Scottish Review of Books is now available online right here, where you can read interviews with the great and the good of Scottish writing and publishing and bookselling.

Regular contributors included the outstanding Canadian poet, Theresa Munoz who was the online editor of the magazine for a while, along with Jan Rutherford.

Over the years the following were amongst the contributors:

Karen Baxter, Tom Bryan, Elizabeth Burns, David Black, Ron Butlin, Ajay Close, Jennie Calder, Linda Cracknell, Robert Crawford, Tim Cornwall, Carol Craig, Owen Dudley Edwards, Julie Davidson, Anni Donaldson, Viki Feaver, Maggie Fergusson, Jennie Erdal, Douglas Gifford, Dan Gunn, Pippa Goldschmidt, Alasdair Gray, Kirsty Gunn, Gerry Hassan, WN Herbert, Mandy Haggith, Richard Holloway, Jen Hadfield, Brian Johnstone, Beth Junor, John Linklater, Liz Lochhead, Robyn Marsack, Susan Mansfield, Alexander McCall Smith, James Meek, Joyce McMillan, Hannah McGill, Candia McWilliam, Hugh MacDonald, David Pratt, Lee Randall, Ali Smith,  AND SO MANY MORE.