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National Libraries Day 2015 is today! #NLD15
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...
Peter Ranscombe’s new book is based an old story
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...
Scottish Book Trust invite you to listen to the New Writers
The BAFTA nominations are out and the Golden Globes already won. Now it is the turn of the writers to take their place at...
Final book of the Grace den Herder trilogy out today
The kindle edition of former Lothian and Borders' detective Peter Ritchie's latest book, 'Red Sky in the Morning' is now available to buy.
Once again,...
Fairy Tale Exhibition at The Scottish Storytelling Centre
Floris Books launches exhibition of artwork from its Traditional Scottish Tales series
Scottish folk and fairy tales provide the focus for a new exhibition opening...
Peter Ritchie book reading at Musselburgh Library on Saturday
Detective turned author Peter Ritchie will be reading from his latest book ‘Red Sky in the Morning’ as part of Book Week Scotland at...
Book Week Scotland 2014 – How to save our libraries
Today, on the first day of Book Week Scotland 2014, Marc Lambert, Director of Scottish Book Trust, has commented on the imminent threat to...
Castleview plays a big part in Book Week Scotland launch
Castleview Primary School had some visitors, and they arrived with free gifts.
The pupils got their hands on their Book Bug Packs with three free...
The Children’s Giving Tree at Blackwell’s
If your home is like mine, with every shelf sagging under the weight of reading matter, you may find it hard to imagine that...
Book Review – Never Mind the Jambos
Hearts supporters continuing to follow their team by bus and car, and then again by railway, would do well to make their journey seem...
The Land Agent – an evening with J David Simons
The Middle East: we see it on television news every night, we are appalled at what we see going on there - but how...
New film based on Waverley anniversary
New film marks 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel - ‘Waverley’
Queen Margaret University media students, Phillip Ellarby & Fausta Avizienyte, have created...
Nanowrimo – start writing your novel today (or not!)
Nanowrimo or November writing month launched today and a new survey of 1000 UK writers has discovered what is most likely to distract them from actually...
The 18th Independent Radical Book Fair at Out of the Blue
Would you like to try an alternative book festival? The 18th Independent Radical Book Fair begins on Wednesday 22 October 2014. Organised by Edinburgh's...
Clocking life: William McIlvanney and Jenni Fagan
'The moment crackled like an electric storm'
Lines like this would be gold dust to most writers, but in William McIlvanney's books they just keep...
‘Sir Walter Scott’ at Waverley Station
Great Scott! - Sir Walter’s Words Around Waverley
From today Edinburgh’s Waverley Station - the only railway station in the world named after a novel...
Book Week Scotland 2014 – a celebration of books and reading
'A love of reading......at its most powerful, transforms lives' (Sophie Moxon, Acting Director, Scottish Book Trust)
For all the gloom and doom we hear about...
Edinburgh City Libraries support the Just Read campaign
Today Edinburgh City Libraries announce their support of ITV Good Morning Britain’s ‘Just Read’ campaign, to encourage parents and carers to spend ten minutes...
Edinburgh Schools – enter now to win cash for your libraries
EDINBURGH SCHOOLS SET FOR LIBRARY ENERGISER
Survey of parents in the Edinburgh & Lothians reveals 47 per cent have at some point been concerned about...
Meet Joan Rowe this week at Linlithgow’s own independent bookshop
This evening Edinburgh-based author Joan Rowe will be at Far From The Madding Crowd bookshop in Linlithgow to talk about her book, Duty.
Duty is...
Scottish Book Trust Children’s Book shortlist announced
Scottish Book Trust is delighted to announce today that three Edinburgh-based authors Alexander McCall Smith, Gill Arbuthnot and William Sutcliffe have been shortlisted for...
Hugo Award for Edinburgh-Based Author
Congratulations today to sci-fi and fantasy author Charles Stross, who has just won a Hugo Award for his novella Equoid.
The Hugo Awards are science fiction's...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival – Stuart MacBride: brains, bad language and a skeleton...
Chairpersons of some sessions at The Edinburgh International Book Festival are excellent (Stuart Kelly, Richard Holloway, I'm looking at you..), some are a little...
Scotland’s Castles: Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied
Summer 1997: a family is driving down the A75 on its way home from a holiday. At the side of the road is a...
Anniversary edition of Scott’s Waverley
Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley: Newly adapted for the modern reader by Jenni Calder is being published 200 years after the original appearance of the...
The Rhesus Chart: Edinburgh author’s new novel
Charlie Stross is jet-lagged, or so he says. No-one would know it; even after several long-haul flights this man is a powerhouse of energy...
The Edinburgh Reporter chats to David Munro
David Munro was born and brought up in Granton. He had a successful career as a marketing professional and still does. But he is...
Story Time at John Lewis
On Saturday, beloved children’s author and illustrator, Nick Sharratt – famed for bringing the Story of Tracy Beaker to life – entertained children at...
Over My Dead Body: local writer Hazel McHaffie introduces her latest novel
'What if?' is a question many novelists ask themselves - 'What if that man across the street is a murderer?', 'What if that woman...
The Physic Garden: an afternoon with Catherine Czerkawska
The Oxfam bookshop in Byres Road may seem an unlikely place to inspire a novel. For Catherine Czerkawska, however, the discovery of a book...
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