The Story of Wojtek the Bear to hit the Big Screen
11 Oct '21
Once upon a time there lived a bear…. only this is no fairy tale and the bear in question smoked cigarettes, drank beer and worked for the...
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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...
Crime, Confidence and the Court of Mary Queen of Scots
30 Aug '21
‘A quiet Saturday evening supper party in the heart of an Edinburgh crammed with visitors suddenly descends into violence and mayhem ending...
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...
After Flodden: Women’s History Month IV
23 Mar '21
This week, in our series of Women’s History Month extracts from Rosemary Goring’s Scotland: Her Story, we encounter an instance of women...
Alexander McCall Smith to receive 2020 Edinburgh Award
22 Dec '20
Internationally-admired Edinburgh-based author Alexander McCall Smith CBE has been chosen as this year’s recipient of the...
City of Money is a Financial Times Book of the Year
26 Nov '19
The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh by Ray Perman has been selected by Merryn Somerset Webb, editor in chief of...
