We're looking ahead to September and October. Join us for some lovely book events!

Great to see out titles ⁦Edinburgh International Book Festival⁩

Join us on Thurs 12th Sept to launch Something Else, the new novel by Jenni Daiches, from our friends at ScotlandStreetPress. Book online or in the bookshop.

Writers Malcolm M & Alasdair Soussi are proud to put their action-packed biopic film script Shadows & Light out to market. For script requests: mcbeyjames.wixsite.com/movie-script (Indebted to Leslie Hills & ScotlandStreetPress. Thanks to John MacKay for smooth trailer cameo.)

Wurds & Burds Wed 4th Sept, be great to see anyone there who can make it along! ScotlandStreetPress

Lookin forward tae readin frae and bletherin aboot ‘Wilson’s Ornithology & Burds in Scot’s’ at Nairn Little Theatre this Wednesday, ayeways a joy tae discuss pioneering ornithologist Alexander Wilson, the world o burds an Scots poetry Nairn Festival ScotlandStreetPress Bobby Motherwell

We’re so excited to be collaborating with The Alasdair Gray Archive to offer two great opportunities for a researcher and a creative to work on a project about Alasdair and Eddie Researcher call-out to be announced on Monday – watch this space!

Book now! Seats are selling fast. The Queen’s Lender, by Jean Findlay - Edinburgh World Heritage ewh.org.uk/the-queens-len…

Please note that we have changed the venue for this event. It will now take place at Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street EH3 5AQ. Please book your spot ASAP to avoid disappointment.

Stu Hennigan Anne Enright The Wren The Wren. I see someone has already said Queen Macbeth Val McDermid. And The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay from small but mighty ScotlandStreetPress

Just re reading Leslie’s excellent epilogue. Plus ça change … ⁦Leslie Hills⁩ ⁦Val McDermid⁩ ⁦Scotlandstreet⁩

Really interesting evening at launch of #SomewhereElse by Jenni Daiches, talking sense of self, displacement, history & identity. Privileged to have known Jenni since we worked at National Museums Scotland, when she was always so encouraging of my writing ambitions. Can't wait to read it.

Co-writer of Shadows & Light film script & author of book on which it is based Alasdair Soussi will present a talk on James McBey's WWI Middle East war artistry @ TE Lawrence Society's symposium, RAF Hendon, London this SAT. See telsociety.org.uk/event/symposiu… for tickets to all events.

The cast of the theatre adaptation of The Zekameron by Maxim Znak with Jim and Ella Dingley on set after the performance in Warsaw. Zekameron spreads its wings. ⁦Voices from Belarus⁩ ⁦@BelarusInUK⁩ ⁦PEN Belarus⁩ ⁦English PEN⁩ ⁦⁦Timothy Snyder⁩

On Sept 21 Alasdair Soussi (cowriter of Shadows & Light film script/author of the ScotlandStreetPress book) spoke about the story's subject artist James McBey @ London's TE Lawrence Society symposium. TEL wld describe McBey's below WWI portrait of him as "shockingly strange to me".

Stewart Conn and Donald Smith trying to do something technical at the excellent Edinburgh, Our Storied Town event, part of Central Library 's Edinburgh 900 series. Fine reading of his poems by Conn and a juxtaposition of Oliphant with Boswell, moved and entertained.

#HistoryWritersDay24 #BookTalk #NextWeek The Queen’s Lender, by Jean Findlay - Edinburgh World Heritage- Riddles Court ⁦Riddle's Court⁩ ⁦Edinburgh⁩ 6-8pm “The creation of the United Kingdom seen through the eyes of the Queen’s jeweller.” ewh.org.uk/the-queens-len…

Great to glimpse Hairan in the window of ⁦Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop⁩ this afternoon

If you re interested in George Heriot, may I recommend the novel, The Queen's Lender by Jean Findlay. Now out in paperback. ScotlandStreetPress