Tag: Books

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...

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...

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...

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......

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

Latest Instalment of Trainspotting Trilogy to be Launched at Book Festival Event in LeithIrvine Welsh will launch his new book, Dead Men’s Trousers, at a special Edinburgh International Book Festival event in Leith. The event,...

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, 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...

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...

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 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...

Intimate storytelling treat featuring performers and non performers telling their own storiesTrue Stories Live is an intimate storytelling event with a simple premise, ordinary people tell their own anecdotal stories to a warm and friendly audience, relating...

Pete Irvine may be known as the man who first brought us Edinburgh's Hogmanay, but he is also an author.SCOTLAND THE BEST 100 Places is an eclectic and very personal mix of the most...