Books
Edinburgh and Scotland books
This book by Alistair Kerr, "Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC", is a disappointment.
It was a timeous coincidence that ‘Pìobairean Beaga Bhaile Ghobhainn’ otherwise ‘The Wee Govan Pipers’…
Donald Campbell’s latest collection of verse, ‘Fugitives’, is a necessarily eclectic one, containing several…
Book Week Scotland is a national celebration of reading created to highlight Scotland’s cultural, creative…
Launched in 2011, "Previously" is a volunteer-driven local history festival. In 2015, the programme runs over…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet, man of letters, novelist and travel writer,…
RLS Day on 13 November 2015, Edinburgh’s annual celebration of one of its most famous authors Robert Louis…
In the lyrics of the Beatles’ song Penny Lane there’s a nurse who’s ‘selling poppies from a tray and though…
This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival takes on a globetrotting theme with a programme that…
The Sheafy is the part of Woodwick Mill in Orkney where poet Willie Hershaw retreats and reflects.
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…
He was dubbed Van Gogh’s twin because of his uncanny resemblance to the Dutch painter.