Books

Edinburgh and Scotland books

Dr Livingstone, I Presume? is an exhibition at the National Musum of Scotland, Chambers Street, running…
Food of Ghosts is being launched on the 8th November, 2012 at Blackwell’s Book Shop, Edinburgh (the event is…
Ben Judah is the author of "Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love With Vladimir Putin", to be…
Reading from the new poetry book by Gordon Peters -- By Leaves Entwined. The poems are lyrics - and rants -…
Eric Lomax, who wrote movingly about his experiences of being tortured as a Japanese POW and his subsequent…
First Reading of a new play about the life of Belle Stewart, a cultural icon, and Scottish Traditional…
These two speakers, both acknowledged experts on their subjects, gave a succinct analysis of the current…
Kate Summerscale is renowned for her non fiction “thriller”, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (one of the…
This was an imaginative and inspirational double act - an international best selling crime writer in…
The first debate on ‘Would Culture Lose its Shine in an Independent Scotland?’ promised we
John McCarthy was introduced by Allan Little for this inaugural Frederick Hood Memorial Lecture.  It was also…
Jonathan Steele is a journalist with The Guardian and has been reporting on Afghanistan since 1981.