Books

Edinburgh and Scotland books

The present Shadow Chancellor had a suitably large audience in the Main Theatre of the Edinburgh…
This morning there was a less-than-bloody pitched battle between Richard Holloway, Richard Harries and author…
Amateur theatre company HATS find Lanark author highly supportive of their new production of his "modern…
A.A. Milne’s belovèd children’s classic, Winnie- the- Pooh, was written in 1926 and has since been translated…
Only a matter of days to go now, and with poets including elder statesman Douglas Dunn (opening the festival…
Kicking-off this week is the West Port Book festival, so on a balmy Edinburgh day I caught up with Hannah…
Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, poet Seamus Heaney, and Doonesbury…
Imagine selling 53,000 secondhand books for £2.00 each in, and around the outside of, a church in Edinburgh’s…
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan is perhaps the Scottish 'fairy story' most readily conjured up in our minds, but…
The remarkable and rapid development of modern technology during the Edwardian period was mirrored by a…
Aileen Christianson will talk about 19th century women writing both for publication and in private letters…
The Eighth Borders Book Festival brings four days of engaging, thought-provoking and inspirational talk and…
Join us for an evening of music contemporary to the life of Conan Doyle performed by acclaimed Scottish…
The words to Auld Lang Syne, with glossary of meanings, and a brief history of the famous song.