Bookshop Day – A beautiful poem in support of your Local Bookshop – we agree with every word!
08 Oct '21
Take a walk down the High Street on Bookshop Day and get lost in your Local Bookshop Launched in 2016, Bookshop Day 2021 takes place on...
Alexander McCall Smith
One Author, One Week, THREE MAJOR AWARDS
08 Oct '21
Over the last week, our beloved author Alexander McCall Smith has received not one, not two but THREE major awards for his writing and wider work....
Alexander McCall Smith honoured by City of Edinburgh
29 Sep '21
Last night, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Frank Ross, presented the Edinburgh Award to Alexander McCall Smith at a ceremony held at the City...
Notes from the Basement, 21 September 2021
21 Sep '21
A last hoorah before the colder days of winter… Tomorrow is the Autumn Equinox and, as if in anticipation, last night the full Harvest Moon –...
A New Chapter for The Edinburgh International Book Festival
24 Aug '21
This year, The Edinburgh International Book Festival are staging a hybrid programme of over 250 events from their new home at the University of...
Opening Date Set for Great Tapestry of Scotland
18 Aug '21
An Opening Date has been set for The Great Tapestry of Scotland in its new Scottish Borders home.
Poem of the Week: ‘Arthur’s Seat and Geology’ by Alexander McCall Smith
10 Aug '21
Alexander McCall Smith’s 2020 poetry collection In a Time of Distance contains a sequence of seven poems, each about one of Edinburgh’s...
Scotland Street is back! Turn to The Scotsman for your daily fix.
09 Aug '21
Scotland Street is back in the Scotsman newspaper – in print and online. Don't miss an episode of Love in the Time of Bertie.
Poem of the Week: Summer by Alexander McCall Smith
20 Jul '21
This poem captures the calm of a perfect summer day – how the sky and sea are so still that time seems to have permanently stopped. This...
Seven Hills – Alexander McCall Smith joins forces with St Mary’s Music School
14 Jul '21
Best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith is joining forces with St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh to spearhead a major two-year music, literary...
Poem of the Week: Adelstrop Revisited by Alexander McCall Smith
08 Jun '21
Travelling on public transport brings with it a particular set of rules and etiquette, and for many, a small silver lining to the past year was the...
Poem of the Week: ‘A New Child: ECL’ by George Mackay Brown
13 Apr '21
Today marks 25 years since George Mackay Brown died on 13th April 1996 in Stromness, Orkney. But 2021 also sees the centenary of his birth. Polygon...
