Tag: Books

Passengers on Edinburgh Trams are in for a literary treat tomorrow lunchtime 27 November when two acclaimed authors jump on board for a special reading. Cathy Renztenbrink (The Last Act of Love) and Douglas Lindsay (The Legend of...

Edinburgh"s Craigmillar area was named as one of Scotland’s first ever Reading Communities earlier today. The new initiative, which was announced by Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop at Craigmillar Library, also began local celebrations for Book Week Scotland 2015.Set...

Scottish Children’s Minister launches new book to promote play Children’s Minister, Aileen Campbell MSP, launched the book 'Play this Way' earlier today at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, in order to “bring the Scottish Government’s Play...

'Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks' (Dr Seuss) Many of us don't need much encouragement to follow the good doctor's orders, but not every child has...

Today a multitude of events will take place across Edinburgh to celebrate the birthday in 1850 of Scottish adventure novelist Robert Louis Stevenson.These events are organised by EdinburghCity of Literature and this year’s theme is ‘Stevenson on stage...

Sylvia Gorman is the librarian at Castlebrae Community High School but she is also Secretary of the Craigmillar Literacy Trust who organise Craigmillar Book Festival.We spoke to her about the festival which is coming up in...

James Dashner, author of the well-loved Scorch Trials excited more than just the teenagers in Edinburgh’s Assembly Roxy last Friday.  Celebrating the release of The Scorch Trials film, US author, James Dashner, made a rare...

From Romeo and Juliet in Palestine to Travels in North Korea, the 2015 Edinburgh Independent and Radical Book Fair journeys far and wide. This alternative festival, organised by Word Power Books and encompassing bookstalls,...

MAGIC OF HARRY POTTER AT THE MUSEUM Visitors to the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh will picture the magic of Harry Potter as part of a nationwide competition with Bloomsbury Children's Books. Launching tomorrow (Friday 9 October) to...

Hailing from Aberdeen, now living in Edinburgh, Steve Christie treats us to the second in his instalments of D.I. Buchanan, and the high-paced crime set in his preceding city. Cold Shot follows the careers of...

When Jane Alexander was a little girl, the highlight of her country holidays was the annual treasure hunt; she loved it so much she even asked her Dad to set one up back in...

Great news from the Scottish Book Trust! Edinburgh-based authors have dominated the shortlist for the 2016 Scottish Children’s Book Awards, with four out of the nine shortlisted authors hailing from the city.(Lovely photos with pupils...

On the first anniversary of the Scottish independence referendum, a new tell-all book will lift the lid on the tactics and tensions behind Better Together and the subsequent general election campaign that left a...

One of my favourite parts of Brideshead Revisited takes place in Venice, when Sebastian Flyte flings open the shutters of his father's palazzo to reveal the Grand Canal in all its glory. Romantic, nostalgic and...

What do people usually do on their honeymoons? Before you answer, let me tell you what journalist Maggie Ritchie did; she found the inspiration for her first novel - and no, it wasn't 50...

James Runcie has just been stuck in the lift at Blackwell's - 'The calm preparation has gone'. Except of course it hasn't; without missing a beat he launches into his funny, interesting, and above all...

 BookBug Week was launched at Gorgie City Farm earlier today.Counting sheep for good bedtime reading, children from Murrayfield Nursery snuggle up with childrens' author Debi Gliori, Bookbug and a couple of sheep at Gorgie City...

 The opening scene of Neil Broadfoot's debut novel Falling Fast came to him fully formed. He was sitting doing his (then) day job at The Scotsman one day 'thinking uncharitable thoughts' when he looked...

An Edinburgh College student has won the people’s choice award in a competition to design a children’s book cover for city publisher Floris Books. The Kelpies Design & Illustration Prize 2015 challenged entrants to design a...

Recently discovered secret diaries kept by Leonard H Thomas have been transcribed and published by his daughter Leona Thomas. Leonard kept them while on the Russian Arctic Convoys in 1942 when he was on four...

Edinburgh-based writer Lynsey May (32) and poet and playwright Michael Pedersen (30) have been named by Scottish Book Trust as two of four recipients of a 2015 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, involving a month-long writing residency in...

Zimbabwean writer, Tendai Huchu, has set his second novel in the city where he now lives. As the back cover informs us, ’The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician’ tells the story of three...

SURREAL ROOTS: FROM WILLIAM BLAKE TO ANDRÉ BRETON Rare copies of publications by revolutionary writers and artists William Blake, Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade will go on show at Modern Two this spring,...

An Edinburgh author is lending her support to Capability Scotland’s Great Scottish Book Off on World Book Day on 5 March. Fran MacIlvey author of ‘Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy’ is taking part in a...

Join acclaimed authors Alan Bissett and Anne Donovan, along with poets William Letford and Ryan Van Winkle at Summerhall, Edinburgh, on 26 February for an evening of readings and reflection on how travel informs...

‘I was dressing the wounded in the trenches – enough said. Worse than Hell…’ That’s the recollection of ‘Frontline Medic’ Captain George Pirie who, as one of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, bravely volunteered for a Royal...

Today would have been Iain Banks' 61st birthday and to mark the day a new joint collection of poetry by Banks and his friend and fellow author, Ken MacLeod has been published.Best known as...

Treasures of the Library!Edinburgh Central Library, the city’s oldest and probably best-known, offers everything from a dedicated children’s library to an Edinburgh and Scottish Collection plus a packed programme of events, and last year...

Peter Ranscombe is a freelance journalist and author living in Musselburgh. He previously worked for The Scotsman and Scottish Field but now his debut novel, an historical thriller called "Hare" has been published in hardback and ebook by...

The BAFTA nominations are out and the Golden Globes already won. Now it is the turn of the writers to take their place at the podium but not to make acceptance speeches, but to...