Nine interwoven fictional tales involving Callum, a journalist and musician, alongside his friends, lovers and family. Includes: Music, travel, lochs, love, despair, strippers, football, antiquarian books, Scotland, Ireland, goodies and baddies and everything else that matters in the world. Perhaps.

Available to pre-order here – https://www.jamesyorkston.co.uk/product/callum-reine-book/

Featuring Nina Persson (The Cardigans), Johanna Söderberg (First Aid Kit) and various members of the Second Hand Orchestra. Release date 22/8/25, available to order here https://jamesyorkston.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-nina-and-johanna

James Yorkston & Nina Persson – duo shows, September 2025

16th Sept – Edinburgh Queen’s Hall – tickets

17th Sept – Newcastle The Common Room –  tickets

18th Sept – Hebden Bridge Trades Club –  tickets

19th Sept – Manchester Hallé St Peter’s – tickets

20th Sept – London St Martin in the Fields – tickets

Ticket links here – https://www.jamesyorkston.co.uk/live-dates/

Tommy The Bruce – a novel.

My third novel, available to order from here, now. Published by Oldcastle Books and in the shops from Jan 25th 2025.

“Meet Tommy Bruce – he’s washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the oxter of Perthshire, that’s just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He’s too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could call young (and too lazy to care about it, really). Saddled with debt, grotty premises that are falling down around him and a crippling loneliness, Tommy is slowly but determinedly drinking himself and his business out of existence. Until one day into the lounge-bar, and out of the blue, walks Fiona McLean. And before long she’s moved behind the bar, into the hotel and (remarkably) into Tommy’s bed. Fiona blows into Tommy’s life and through the hotel, and with the light she brings, Tommy’s fortunes might just be turning around; but in her wake has also slipped in darkness – names and faces from the past who mean Tommy no goodwill at all, criminal forces that threaten to ruin him, the hotel and what little happiness he’s managed, haplessly, to cobble together.”