New Statesman - <![CDATA[Ruaridh Nicoll]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ruaridh_nicoll en <![CDATA[Fiction - Bloody trail]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200511140041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200511140041 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Ruaridh Nicoll No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Picador, 309pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330440101

]]> <![CDATA[Applied ethics. Alexander McCall Smith's new female detective - an Edinburgh bluestocking - is no less delightful than her African predecessor, writes Ruaridh Nicoll]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060045 Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT Ruaridh Nicoll The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith Little, Brown, 281pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316728179

]]> <![CDATA[Mired in the Holyrood bog]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311100012 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311100012 Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Ruaridh Nicoll To the delight of the doomsayers, the Scottish Parliament building is claiming a new scalp

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