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"There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps..."

Happy birthday to local lad, & one of our favourite storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson (portrait by Nerli, in the National Galleries of Scotland collection)

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TheEdinburghBookshop Nov 11

Celebrating the launch of the Edinburgh Writers Forum's Jane Anderson's new historical, Scottish novel, The Orchid Hunter's Daughter this evening.

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#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #ScottishFiction #ScottishLiterature # Novel #Roman #TheOrchidHuntersDaughter #JaneAnderson #Writer #Author #Auteur #bookshop #librairie #BookLaunch #bookstodon #EdinburghBookshop #IndependentBookshops #EdinburghWritersForum

Gary Johnstone Nov 8

Yesterday bought Laidlaw by William McIlvanney from my local bookshop, Backstory in Balham. https://backstory.london/ It cost £9.99. On Amazon it's £8.99. Or you can read it for free on Kindle Unlimited. McIlvanney is from Kilmarnock in Scotland where I grew up. I can well imagine his scorn for Amazon and Kindle. An extra £ well, spent, I feel.
#scottishliterature #ScottishCrime #tartannoir #books

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FID Anglo-American Culture Nov 7

"The International Companion to Scottish Children's Literature", ed.s Maureen A. Farrell & Robert A. Davis, asks what is distinctly #Scottish in #ChildrensLiterature by #ScottishWriters - from #PeterPan or #TreasureIsland to recent works, incl plays & poetry 🏴
#ScottishLiterature #LiteraryStudies

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marcas Oct 31

Headlining the event is one of Africa's most widely published and celebrated authors, Ray Anyasi (Nigeria), alongside Ceitidh Campbell (Scotland), Anton Floyd (Ireland), Laura T. Fyfe (Scotland), Michele Hodkn (USA), Victoria MacIver (Scotland), Spike Munro (Scotland), and Babs NicGriogair (Scotland).

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#QueerLit #QueerLiterature #QueerPoetry #JewishLiterature #JewishLit #JewishPoetry #Polari #ScottishLiterature #IrishLiterature #NewScots #NewIrish

TheEdinburghBookshop Oct 29

#CoverReveal : We're obviously always delighted to celebrate one of our (very!) local literary stars, Muriel Spark, and Hodder has James Bailey's Like a Cat Loves a Bird, "a spiky and delicious new literary biography", coming next April.

#books #livres #MurielSpark #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #LikeACatLovesABird #JamesBailey #Biography #biographie #ScottishLiterature #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon

FID Anglo-American Culture Oct 29

Opposite sides of the globe, but united in spookiness - Rosemary Gray's collection of #Scottish #ghoststories (Scott, Stevenson, Oliphant & more) delivers Scottish ghosties & ghoulies, while the #NewZealandStudies anthology "Gothic NZ" explores "the darker side of Kiwi culture"

#ScottishLiterature

TheEdinburghBookshop Oct 24

We were also delighted to have a visit from Shona MacLean, author of The Bookseller of Inverness, kindly bringing Marie an advance copy of her next book (due Feb 2026), The Cromarty Library Circle (pub Quercus)

#books #livres #TheCromartyLibraryCircle #ScottishBooks #ScottishLiterature #SGMacLean #ShonaMacLean #TheBooksellerOfInverness #bookstodon #Bookshops #Librairies #author #auteur