A is for Applecross: A Gaelic Alphabet
08 Dec '20
Alistair Moffat’s In Search of Angels: Travels to the Edge of the World is his own journey in the footsteps of the Irish saints who brought...
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Sweets in Shoes?
02 Dec '20
By Ann Landmann, Sales Rep When I was growing up in the East of Germany, the 6th December was Nikolaus – your first haul of sweets or...
Feet on the Ground, Heads Spinning towards New Opportunity
01 Dec '20
Have you stumbled across Schitt’s Creek on Netflix? It took me a while to catch up with the rest of the world as one influencer after another raved...
New Writing from… Alexander McCall Smith
30 Nov '20
The following extract is taken from a new collection of short stories and graphic tales, Tiny Tales, from one of the world’s most popular...
Ten Years to a Tapestry
26 Nov '20
Ten years to celebrate Scotland. Ten years to bring a dream to fruition. Ten years to reach the new starting point for something incredibly...
Keeping it Local – Online or Face-to-Face
24 Nov '20
Supporting our Booksellers, Writers and all in Publishing Last week, the Guardian newspaper reported authors coming together in a ‘thunderclap of...
Poem of the Week – ‘Mareel’ by Roseanne Watt
23 Nov '20
Our Poem of the Week is ‘Mareel’ from Roseanne Watt’s collection Moder Dy. This stunning collection has won both the Somerset...
Recipe of the Week: Elgin-style Butteries
21 Nov '20
There’s nothing like a buttery to fortify you on a winter morning: their salty goodness goes so well with strong tea or coffee. Liz Ashworth,...
Books! Books! Everywhere!
21 Nov '20
In the last few years there has been a true resurgence of not only bookshops (Edinburgh has gained four new bookshops in the last five years) but...
2020 Highland Book Prize Longlist Announced
10 Nov '20
We are delighted to announce that Alistair Moffat’s new book, In Search of Angels, is one of the 13 books selected for the 2020 Highland Book...
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’ –...
Winners Announced: The Inaugural Prize for the Best Paper in Scottish Local History
09 Nov '20
Two papers about seventeenth-century Scotland have won a new prize for Scottish history-writing sponsored by Birlinn. John Harrison and Allan Kennedy...
