“By candlelight it was all different”: Extract from Bitterhall by Helen McClory
24 Oct '22
Bitterhall by Helen McClory is a haunting gothic novel that is breathtakingly ambitious in scope, questioning the notion of objective reality and...
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An Autumn Tour with Alexander McCall Smith: Part Two!
20 Oct '22
The next stop on the tour (read Part One of this blog first), travelling this time by train from St Pancras, was Letchworth. The lunchtime event with...
An Autumn Tour with Alexander McCall Smith: Part One!
17 Oct '22
Last week, Alexander McCall Smith (or Sandy) enjoyed his first major October Tour in the UK since Covid restrictions lifted. He flew with his...
Get cosy with an extract from Ghosts in the Gloaming by Denzil Meyrick
11 Oct '22
Ghosts in the Gloaming is the latest Tale from Kinloch from Denzil Meyrick, author of the bestselling DCI Daley series. It is the perfect cosy read...
Landfall on South Georgia – an extract from The Two-Headed Whale
06 Oct '22
The story of whaling is a sensitive subject. Sandy Winterbottom handles it beautifully in her mix of historical narrative, the fictionalised, tragic...
The Best Autumnal Books to Read This Season
03 Oct '22
As the evenings grow darker and a distinctly autumnal chill lingers in the air, it’s only natural to start looking for the ideal fireside book to...
Author Ian Williams Warns that Scottish Universities are Dangerously Dependent on Chinese Funding
29 Sep '22
China has been making global headlines recently with its increasingly hostile actions towards Taiwan, a topic covered at length in Former Channel 4...
The Palace of Holyroodhouse
14 Sep '22
An extract from Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring A great many of the thousands lining the Royal Mile in...
Notes from the Basement, 14 September 2022
14 Sep '22
As we continue in this quiet, reflective period we are all – as individuals – starting to take in the enormity of change across the board that is...
Launch of Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits
08 Sep '22
On Monday 22nd of August 2022, Born To Be Wide presented the launch of Edinburgh’s Greatest Hits at The Fruitmarket Gallery to celebrate...
Poem of the Week: ‘Morning Rituals’ by Jenni Fagan
06 Sep '22
From her newly published collection The Bone Library, our poem of the week is ‘Morning Rituals’. Read the poem, and listen to Jenni...
‘This is Where You Want to Aim’– An Extract from Hindsight by Jenna Watt
25 Aug '22
Early Autumn is the peak period for deer stalking in the Highland estates of Scotland, a practice that is both controversial and inaccessible to most...
