It has been one year since the premier issue of FREAK Circus and a tad more since we first plotted world domination from a Portobello tea shop and decided to embark on our maiden Kickstarter campaign. So, what better for a theme to finish year one with than NAKED. In this issue you will read torrid tales of exposed bodies and souls as we flow from passionate nights to sexual health clinics. Love to death, bared hearts to bared pubes. FREAK Circus #4 is the place where we expose ourselves to you... Words by: Claire Spiers Thomas Stewart A Jak David Linklater Pab Roberts Esmeralda Pihlgren...

Max Scratchmann was born the son of a Dundee jute wallah and spent the first six years of his life in India before being taken -home- to Scotland in the bitter winter of 1963. In Scotland for Beginners he tells the often painful, but very funny, story of growing up in the bleak grey-harled bungalows of Dundee's newly-built suburbs and learning to adapt to his native land in an era when the very fabric of the nation was changing. Told as a series of non-fiction short stories, Scotland for Beginners takes us on a sentimental journey through -auld Dundee- as Max struggles to decipher Scots...

Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum, Chucking It All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls. With its remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish island, Chucking It All uncovers the frightening realities of relocating to -a magical island lost in the mists of time- as you follow the warts-and-all adventures of urban misanthrope, Max Scratchmann, as he valiantly tries to forge a new life in the windswept Orkney islands, and grumbles his way through unending winters with...