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The Edinburgh Book Festival closed with a moving tribute to Scotland’s first national poet, Edwin Morgan who…
The pioneering library at HMP Saughton in Edinburgh has been given £5,000 for winning a prestigious award in…
Following the death of Edwin Morgan last week, The Edinburgh International Book Festival has confirmed that a…
Best known to the general public for his charming, flamboyant and ultimately moving performance as Gareth in…
Wordsmiths and poets are being encouraged to bring forth their rhyme, reason, and humanity for a poetry…
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…
Join us for an evening of music contemporary to the life of Conan Doyle performed by acclaimed Scottish…