Bad to the Bone, Saturday’s event in Dunbar with me, Tony Black, Shona MacLean and Douglas Skelton, went very well… aside from when a Tory asked the American novelist Bart Lessard, who’s in the process of applying for residency in Scotland, where he owns a house, “What are you bringing to the United Kingdom?” (Hope for the dissolution of said nation.)

Then we got the news that the mighty Ken Bruen said of the new Tony Black book, “Wrecked is my novel of the year.” So Dockyard Press is...