Scottish Football: The Home Front Stoics
13 Nov '20
Scottish football is in the limelight, with the national team going all the way to Euro 2020, against all the odds. After so many years of waiting,...
Tea Time Treat
RLS Day 2020: On reading
09 Nov '20
‘I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson’ –...
We’ve Discovered a New Podcast (and we are happy to share!)
29 Oct '20
At this peculiar – and often lonely – time of social isolation, there can be few more welcome treats than the discovery of a brand new...
Award-Winning New Writing from Argyll and Bute
13 Oct '20
Over lockdown, an all-age creative writing project has been running in the area of Argyll and Bute in the west of Scotland. Our own Denzil Meyrick,...
Festivals Galore!
08 Oct '20
Autumn is always a busy time for authors, festival programmers, booksellers and publishers alike, and we’re so happy that this year has been no...
What’s in the News as Autumn Kicks-In?
06 Oct '20
We’ve been busy in the second part of this crazy Covid summer and early Autumn. We’ve been busy, our authors have been busy and...
Take A Quite Impossible Journey Around the Railways of Scotland With Andrew Drummond
24 Sep '20
Join Andrew Drummond in a special launch-day video as he explores the fascinating world of his new book, A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to...
Bandit Capitalism – Bob Wylie In-Conversation with Ray Perman
10 Sep '20
Bob Wylie, author of Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State, in conversation with Ray Perman in launch-day podcast...
Riders on the Storm – A Video Introduction to an Essential Book
20 Aug '20
Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being is an essential, urgent book from one of the most influential writers on the...
Stuart Cosgrove Speaks Out on Cassius X, Soul Music and Social and Political Change
17 Aug '20
Author of the best-selling soul trilogy – Detroit 67, Memphis 68, Harlem 69 – Stuart Cosgrove has turned his attention to the story of Cassius X....
Scotland Street Makes a Joyful Return to the Pages of The Scotsman Newspaper
10 Aug '20
Scotland Street's joyful return to the pages of the Scotsman newspaper.
In Praise of Booksellers and Booklovers Everywhere
23 Jun '20
This is Independent Bookshop Week in the UK and to celebrate, the author Alexander McCall Smith has written a short poem, ‘Getting Lost in a...
