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Price? Inexpensive. Size? In your pocket (it soon can be). Tenth edition. A great gift by an expert, for the beginner, the expert, or the curious and reviewed here: thecourier.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/f… #whisky #distillery

High street retailers are really suffering from this lockdown-by-stealth. Here are a few excellent reasons why we must support our indies where we can. Oh, and #choosebookshops, tweeps! 📚🎅🎄😍

When Christmas was banned in Scotland - and a recipe for traditional Yule Cake from The Glasgow Cookery Book waverley-books.co.uk/blogs/latest-e…

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year and an Auld Lang Syne from us and Rabbie: waverley-books.co.uk/blogs/latest-e…

Happy Hansel Monday! The first Monday after New Year was 'Hansel (or Handsel) Monday', when gifts were exchanged on this holiday - as commemorated by Robert Burns, 'An Old Farmer's New Year's Morning Salutation to His Old Mare Maggie' waverley-books.co.uk/blogs/latest-e… #robertburns #gift

Robert Burns - and the "haggis mystery", the "stinking edition" and the arrival of Burns that was heralded with a white sheet on a haystack... waverley-books.co.uk/news/latest-ev…

What would Burns say, on reading this week's tinsel show news? "Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man’s a Man for a’ that: For a’ that, and a’ that, Their tinsel show, an’ a’ that; The honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor, Is king o’ men for a’ that." #BurnsNight

Happy Burns' Night everyone!

"Witty, contemporary... I smiled to myself at bookseller Eleanor Mace not wanting to move from her cosy flat above her bookshop once she got married as she 'prefers her own space'. Very Barbara Pym."

"Eleanor was no prude, but she had never before been taken to a nudist beach on what was essentially a first date." The fun doesn't stop just because you're older! #NewBeginnings #Over50 bit.ly/3NKGymL

The Edinburgh Book Festival is the largest public celebration of the written word, with 700 writers. And Mark Mechan with his book 'Welly Boot Broth' for children, is one of them. Thanks to Mark and EdBookFest. edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/w… #EdBookFest #GrowYourOwnFood #Scotland

Enjoyable fiction that lets you to escape to France... sunshine, food, leafy lanes and pastries and new beginnings... #RomCom #holidayreads #france #summerreading

“…the ups and downs of people in their mid-40s who have been dumped by partners in a little seaside village, who find themselves in a romcom... The author has researched the book world well, and captures it effortlessly.” #Review uk.bookshop.org/books/summer-o…

Wonderful new books and congratulations to the winners of the Wainwright Prize - for nature writing.

Nostalgic for those memories of Halloween - celebrating Mark Mechan's 'Tumshie' in The Courier today: #Halloween #neeps #tattiebogle #Halloween2022 #halloweencostume thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/381400…

bbc.co.uk/news/entertain… By the pricking of our thumbs, something thrilling this way comes. Please bring it to Glasgow too? #macbeth #davidtennant #Shakespeare #thespian #SCOTLAND #scottishplay #macbethtartan

Win £1,000 for your school and an annual membership to the School Library Association to help them #rebuildthelibrary - plus win a £100 National Book Token just for you. Enter online now!

Celebrating the end of July! Celebrating Scottish strawberry season with this recipe reproduced from The Glasgow Cookery Book (courtesy Caledonian University). Image copyright TamaNes (Shutterstock).

A feel good quote from Eleanor Abraham's book about cats and finding peace - 'Meowditation': 'Cats love getting inside paper bags and we can learn from that...so.. 'Every day, find your 'bag'. Something calming, or fun, or playful' to cheer yourself up.' #cats #Serenity