Tag: Books

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, Peter draws on his extensive police career which took him...

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 this Thursday at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. The exhibition...

Detective turned author Peter Ritchie will be reading from his latest book ‘Red Sky in the Morning’ as part of Book Week Scotland at Musselburgh Library this Saturday at 3pm.The book is the third in...

Today, on the first day of Book Week Scotland 2014, Marc Lambert, Director of Scottish Book Trust, has commented on the imminent threat to libraries in Scotland and what can be done to help...

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 books, ahead of Book Week Scotland - which runs from...

If your home is like mine, with every shelf sagging under the weight of reading matter, you may find it hard to imagine that some children have no books at all.  These children aren't...

 Hearts supporters continuing to follow their team by bus and car, and then again by railway, would do well to make their journey seem much quicker by buying Never Mind the Jambos, a Hearts...

The Middle East: we see it on television news every night, we are appalled at what we see going on there - but how many of us have a clue what it's all about?...

 New film marks 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel - ‘Waverley’Queen Margaret University media students, Phillip Ellarby & Fausta Avizienyte, have created a new Vox Pops film to help celebrate the 200th...

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 getting down to writing their novel.It is hoped that sharing...

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 own Word Power Books, the fair will feature talks, film...

'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 on coming. This man, the creator of Jack Laidlaw, the...

Great Scott! - Sir Walter’s Words Around WaverleyFrom today Edinburgh’s Waverley Station - the only railway station in the world named after a novel - will be awash with the wit and wisdom of...

'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 parents who never read to their children, teenagers who can...

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 reading with their children every day.The campaign, which is supported...

EDINBURGH SCHOOLS SET FOR LIBRARY ENERGISER Survey of parents in the Edinburgh & Lothians reveals 47 per cent have at some point been concerned about school facilities ScottishPower Foundation will celebrate its partnership with Edinburgh International...

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 a work of fiction based on the diary kept by...

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 this year’s Scottish Children’s Book Awards, celebrating the most popular...

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 most prestigious prizes, voted on by members of the World...

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 less impressive.  If his first few lines are anything to...

Summer 1997: a family is driving down the A75 on its way home from a holiday.  At the side of the road is a sign, 'Castle for Sale.' How many of us, at that...

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 first of the Waverley novels and the birth of the...

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 (one does wonder what he's like when he's not tired...)...

David Munro was born and brought up in Granton. He had a successful career as a marketing professional and still does. But he is also now a published author. That seems to be the...

 On Saturday, beloved children’s author and illustrator, Nick Sharratt – famed for bringing the Story of Tracy Beaker to life – entertained children at John Lewis Edinburgh as part of a special charity storytelling...

'What if?' is a question many novelists ask themselves - 'What if that man across the street is a murderer?', 'What if that woman is having an affair?' Hazel McHaffie had been asking 'What if?'...

The Oxfam bookshop in Byres Road may seem an unlikely place to inspire a novel.  For Catherine Czerkawska, however, the discovery of a book about the lost gardens of Glasgow University did just that....

There are not so many book launches when the author is not present; when the book in question is an anthology, the absence of any of the contributors is even more remarkable.  The poets...

On Saturday 14th June 2014 two award-winning science fiction authors Nnedi Okorafor and Ken MacLeod will be in conversation with Stuart Kelly, discussing Science Fiction and the Exploration of Dangerous Ideas and the freedom that science...

 How does a thirty-something Scotsman living in Japan end up writing a book set in Torquay?That was the question put to Iain Maloney at the launch of his debut novel First Time Solo at...