Tag: Books
Book Review: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Vampire Menace
We first met Ms Shona McMonagle in Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar, Edinburgh author Olga Wojtas’s debut novel.
Shona, now a librarian in Morningside, that most respectable and genteel of Edinburgh suburbs, is a proud...
Book Review – The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
St Kilda is a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic. For centuries its people lived a very basic life, farming Soay sheep and existing on a diet of seabirds and their eggs, salted mutton,...
Book Review – The Last Hillwalker
The Last Hillwalker is the latest book by climber, writer, poet and actor John D Burns, who brought his hugely successful one man plays to the Fringe in 2010 and 2014.
John moved from Sheffield...
Books – Arthur and Me
Ann Treherne, Chair of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, has just published her first book, Arthur and Me which tells the Centre’s origin story.
Arthur and Me documents how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
Portobello Book Festival 2019 : Displaced Dishes
Pamela Gregory became a Samos Volunteer in September 2017. She was 71 then, and she’s still volunteering now.
‘We stand for human dignity. We stand with refugees.’
In autumn 2018 Gica Loening decided to spend Christmas...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 – Day 17, 26th August
Awwww..... My in-boxes have all gone silent....... Oh, well.
So, they thought it was all over... Well, they're all all over. Until next year. Although we are expecting the Christmas and Hogmanay launches soon......
Craigmillar Book Festival 2019
The Craigmillar Book Festival is an annual event that takes place in nurseries, schools, Craigmillar Library and other public spaces around Craigmillar.
The Craigmillar Book Festival aims to inspire everyone in Craigmillar to enjoy the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 – Day 12, 21st Aug
Another day, another raft of authors taking to the grey carpet. Mariella Frostrup has to take the award for the 'Cheeriest Person in the World' as she smiled and laughed her way through the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 : Juno Dawson
I think it’s safe to say that Amanda Block likes this book.
The Edinburgh-based literary consultant is talking about Juno Dawson’s latest novel Meat Market, the story of a working class girl who is...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 4, 13th August
Day 4 and a second day in succession at the EIBF. A few more well kent faces this time around. From an Olympic Champion and an MSP to an archaeologist and a physicist. An...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 3, 12th Aug
And, we're off! Or, at least, we are. The EIBF kicked off on Saturday, but, hey, there's only one of me....
And it was the usual fair. An extra and two no shows. At least...
Edinburgh Book Fringe 2019: still fabulous and free
Edinburgh is a reader's paradise. Few other cities can beat it for the variety and quality of its bookshops; new, old, specialist, weird – you can browse them all here. This August two of...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019
The sun shone on Charlotte Square Gardens as the EIBF launched its 2019 theme earlier today.
Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival was joined by Roland Gulliver, Associate Director and Janet Smyth,...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019: The Baillie Gifford Schools Programme
Communities come in many forms. A school; a housing development; a hospital; a village; a religious group; even an online forum - all might be communities, but equally they might not. Proximity by itself...
The Wee Scottish Book Company is a winner
Edinburgh Author Susan Cohen has won a top award at Scotland’s Trade Fair at the SECC, this weekend.
Susan, set up “The Wee Scottish Book Company” to bring a range of books to...
Lord Provost to Donate Muriel Spark Novels to Every Council High School
Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, Frank Ross, will donate almost 500 books to school libraries this Christmas to mark the centenary of Dame Muriel Spark’s birth.
During a visit to Tynecastle High School yesterday (Wednesday 12 December),...
Local Edinburgh author releases political thriller
Local author Katy Moran has released a new political thriller, Project Nova.
Jamie Jameson, a young, disgraced political journalist, stumbles into the web of a government conspiracy after witnessing a suicide.
In a world where everyone...
Book review – The Team for Me – Fifty Years of Following Hearts
The Team For Me - Fifty Years of Following Hearts by Mike Smith
The author Mike Smith is a Jambo by choice rather than accident of birth (living at the time in Cumbernauld his father...
The 10th Portobello Book Festival is here!
The 10th Portobello Book Festival opened last night, with a packed out (and packed in) evening of entertainment in Portobello Library.
Introducing a programme of readings and music, author Louise Kelly spoke of the goodwill...
Five more books set in Edinburgh
The Scottish Book Trust website is full of great ideas about what to read.
Here we have listed some of the books set in Edinburgh which they recommend. What are yours?
How to Make a Golem...
The 10th Portobello Book Festival is coming!
Ten years ago a group of Portobello residents decided to start a book festival.
Ambitious? Maybe.
They decided they wanted everything at that festival to be kept local – and free. This meant no-one would be...
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 10, 20th August
What with other stuff to do, the weather, life the universe and everything getting in the way, we, eventually, made a second - well, third-ish - trip into Charlotte Square to catch up with...
2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 4, 14th Aug.
After a few misfires early on, there was a bit more action today on the grey carpet. Despite a bit of rain, a fair number of attending writers made the long walk 'down the...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018 – Day 3
He came. He saw. He got the tram back home.
Unfortunately, the weather, having been fantastic for ages, decided that enough was enough and brought Edinburgh's various Festivals a bit of damp, miserable -...
‘Dead Man’s Trousers’ to Launch in Leith
Latest Instalment of Trainspotting Trilogy to be Launched at Book Festival Event in Leith
Irvine Welsh will launch his new book, Dead Men’s Trousers, at a special Edinburgh International Book Festival event in Leith. The event,...
Books – Chrysalis by Jeremy Welch- a solid and original debut
Chrysalis by Edinburgh author Jeremy Welch is an engaging debut novel with a relatively simplistic premise, but complex undertones.
When Sebastian, a self-pitying finance agent is fired from his prestigious job in London, he is...
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards 2018
Scottish Book Trust, the national charity transforming lives through reading and writing, has supported over 90 creative individuals through the New Writers Awards since 2009. Today, Scottish Book Trust announces the 10 new awardees...
Eight new UNESCO Cities of Literature join Network founder Edinburgh
As the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature, Edinburgh is pleased to welcome eight new cities from eight countries to its literary family today.
Bucheon (Republic of Korea) Milan (Italy)
Durban (South Africa) Québec City (Canada)
Lillehammer...
Portobello Book Festival 2017: A Community Triumph
These days there are book festivals everywhere you look, from the dizzy heights of Hay-on-Wye to the cultured calm of Cheltenham. Last weekend, however, I went out to the seaside to visit a festival...
Alastair McIntosh: Poacher’s Pilgrimage – An Island Journey
Alastair McIntosh was born in 1955 at Leurbost on Lewis, that northern part of a Hebridean island with two names, two identities. Forty-three years earlier, a certain Mary Anne MacLeod had been born just...
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