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✍️Writers, would you benefit from a paid desk residency in Edinburgh, the world’s first
UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 City of Literature?

Deadline is this Monday for applications.

📅: Monday 8 April
🏆: £1k
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Ridiculously exciting news! 😊😊😊
So, so grateful for the opportunity to translate this amazing, unsettling, funny and poetic book.

Join us for the official launch of the Eco-museum of Scottish Mining Landscapes Wednesday 24th April at the NationalMiningMuseum All very welcome, talks and optional walk, free but ticketed (we need to make sure we have enough cake)
#coal #miningheritage #industriallandscape

We’re so excited to have the Waterstones Exclusive edition of The Maiden! 😍

Kate Foster will be in conversation with D.V. Bishop this Thursday 29th February at 6pm to celebrate the paperback release of The Maiden! Tickets are available to purchase on our website or in-store! 🎫

This weekend 😁:

Congratulations to the winner, Rob Myatt 🍉. This year’s prize was awarded for translations of an extract from Behzad Karim Khani’s Hund, Wolf, Schakal.

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Planning a historical research project in the new year?

Find out how to obtain a reader ticket to visit our archives and delve into Scotland’s past…

bit.ly/NRSVisitUs

And you can search our online catalogue 👇

bit.ly/NRSCatalogue

Our 2024 books: The Word Tree (Teolinda Gersão, tr. M Jull Costa), Of Cattle and men (Ana Paula Maia, tr. Z Perry), The Words That Remain (Stenio Gardel, tr. B Dantas Lobato), Under Our Skin (Joaquim Arena, tr. J Soutar) and Confession of the Lioness (Mia Couto, tr. D Brookshaw).

This week I've been turning some leftover cardboard tubes into models of the famous 'Lewis Chess Pieces' . . . maybe I should make the whole set. 😯🤩 darrellwakelam.com
You'll like these Angela O'Brien Alison Fisk Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark Nina Willburger Prof Alice Roberts💙

Celebrating the shortlist for the 2023 Goethe–Institut Award for translators based in the UK and Ireland, whose work has not yet been published in print. For the best translation of extracts from Hund, Wolf, Schakal by Behzad Karim Khani.

#TranslationPrizes Goethe-Institut London

😊😊😊 Sooo thrilled. Absolutely love Behzad Karim Khani's Hund, Wolf, Schakal and it was a joy to get to translate extracts from it. (And be introduced to Vitamin C 😁.)

It’s #RobertLouisStevenson Day today, the date marking the anniversary of his birthday.
Follow our trail on Our Town Stories and you can take a virtual wander through the Victorian city he knew as a child and student.
#Edinburgh #RLSDay
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⭐️ ‘As violent as a Tarantino movie…echoes of the Norse Sagas in all their ferocious and poetic intensity' - Scotsman

⭐️ 'Thrilling events in an authentic setting’ - Inverness Courier

⭐️ 'Stupendously earthy, visceral writing' - Sally Magnusson

Columba's Bones is out now!

Talking about writing ‘Play It Safe’ for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House.

You can watch the 50th anniversary film here: youtu.be/l8ouigVtUvo?si…

#SydneyOperaHouse

Tour and tea 🍵

Join curator Dr Ali Clark for an exclusive morning tour of Rising Tide, and add voucher to upgrade your experience with refreshments in one of our museum cafés.

Wednesday 1 November & Thursday 9 November, 9.15am. Tap or click the image. nms.ac.uk/exhibitions-ev…

We're excited to announce our Autumn 2023 Recommendations - now live on our website! Brilliant and original books from Austria, Germany and Switzerland 🎉 buff.ly/3rIunBT

ATTENTION!

We EXTENDED the DEADLINE for the Children's History Society Conference 2024 due to UK strike action. The new deadline for abstracts is *16 October*. Still have time to send your abstracts. we'd love to hear from you! #histchild #histed

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In ‘Bottled Ocean 2023’ artist George Nuku envisions an undersea world composed entirely of plastic.

Rising Tide also features woven baskets made from gathered plastic, spearpoints made from discarded glass, and five kimono by Yuki Kihara.

🌊 On from 12 Aug 2023 - 14 April 2024