DON’T MISS

THE Green Gallery in Buchlyvie has been a hive of activity during lockdown, with owner Becky Walker hosting Saturday night Facebook Live at Five sessions, showcasing artists’ work. Yesterday, the gallery opened its BIG Summer Exhibition (which runs until September 20). Today, its Arts and Crafts Market takes place in and around the gallery. Expect 30 stalls ranging from Fallen Tree Coffee’s mobile truck to local artist, Hayley Banks and Cushie Doo Textiles’ sustainably hand-printed textile homeware.

Arts & Crafts Market, The Green Gallery, Ballamenoch, Buchlyvie, Stirlingshire, FK8 3NX, www.greengallery.com, 01360 850180, Today (Aug 29) only. 9.30am–5.30pm. Free parking 9.3010.30am and 4.30–5.30pm, otherwise £5 per car.

create delicately beautiful and intricate collages based around costume. The sting is that each figure has a wasp for a face.

Writer and artist, Penny Anderson, has been drawn to shiny things in her new collection, Enargeia Arcade. Using ready-mades, dolls house furniture, selfassembly kits, collage and mirrors

THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY Matt Haig

Canongate, priced £16.99 (ebook £11.99).

Between life and death, there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library she has a chance to live all the lives she’d always regretted not pursuing.

With the help of an old friend, she feels she can now track down her perfect, so far elusive, life.

The Midnight Library is arguably Haig’s best work to

inside the library, you really won’t want to leave.

Life-affirming without falling into cliche, the plot draws on Haig’s own mental health battles, and experiences around suicide and depression.

It is a work that will resonate with so many, is thoroughly thought-provoking and beautifully written.

It fully lives up to the (well deserved) hype that surrounds it.

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MEGAN BAYNES

SIGNS OF MURDER

David Wilson Sphere, £20

REVIEW BY ALASTAIR MABBOTT