The phenomena that has blighted the live literature world over the last ten years could be classed as a ‘stooshie’ – or ‘a big commotion’, in Scots. Indeed it feels rare for any books-based event or literary festival not to provoke one these days. Differing in both scale and seriousness, the last decade has seen a huge increase in fractious warring in the world of books, driven in no small part by the use and abuse of the powers of social media by certain activist-writers.