Colin Montgomerie at The National Library

The National Library of Scotland welcomed a star guest through its doors recently when 2010 European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie participated in a book signing event.
The Scottish golfing great has written the foreword for The Greatest Game, an entertaining new book written by Professor David Purdie and illustrated by Hugh Dodd, which takes a [...]

Book Festival closes with tribute to Morgan

The Edinburgh International Festival public programme closed last night with a moving tribute to Scotland’s first national poet, Edwin Morgan who died last week.  Richard Holloway chaired the final event in Charlotte Square Gardens which featured readings and personal tributes from 14 of Scotland’s top poets including Douglas Dunn, Janice Galloway, [...]

Everybody’s reading The Secret Garden!

The Festival Theatre is delighted to announce an exciting new Education Project to coincide with the venue’s spectacular in-house Christmas production, The Secret Garden.
Organised by the theatre’s Education Department, the scheme will offer every Primary 7 class in Edinburgh and the Lothians free copies of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel for each of their pupils [...]

Elsewhere launched at Book Festival

The Minister for Culture, Fiona Hyslop, today launched a programme of brand new writing celebrating the best of Scottish, international and children’s words and ideas at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.  With the support of the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, the Book Festival has commissioned fifty authors to write short stories or essays, [...]

Tribute to Edwin Morgan

Commenting on the sad news of the death of Edwin Morgan, Nick Barley, Director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival said “As well as being one of the greatest British poets of the last 50 years, Morgan was also the last link to a great generation of Scottish writers than included Sorley MacLean, Norman MacCaig [...]

Peter Mandelson at The Book Festival

He’s been called many things by the British Press – Mandy; The Prince of Darkness, and more recently The Dark Lord.  He was the architect behind the re-branding of New Labour, and served two Prime Ministers, but not without attracting controversy seemingly at every turn.  Now, for the first time in a public event, Peter [...]

John Murray Archive

A blog by the National Library of Scotland’s writer in residence, uncovering secrets and revelations from one of its most coveted archives, is proving to be an online hit.
Taking advantage of 21st century technology to share his story, playwright Peter Arnott has been sharing the fascinating tale of his work in the John Murray Archive [...]

Edinburgh International Book Festival opens to crowds

he Edinburgh International Book Festival opened on Saturday to record crowds and capacity audiences for most events. Christos Tsiolkas, one of the ten authors longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize who will be appearing in Charlotte Square Gardens over the next 17 days, opened the Festival when speaking about his book, The Slap [...]

Forward Prize nominees appearing at Book Festival

Four of the six poets on the shortlist for The Forward Prize for Best Collection, announced this week, will be appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer.  Although tickets for Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney have sold out, tickets to hear Robin Robertson, Jo Shapcott and Sinéad Morrissey are all still available.
Don Paterson, the [...]

National Library of Scotland finds Flickr

The National Library of Scotland has contributed one of the biggest ever collections of photographs and images to Flickr’s ‘The Commons’ – ensuring over 2000 of its archived
images become available world-wide.
The first collections released to the website include The Last Letter of Mary Queen of Scots, photographs of tenements on the Southside of Edinburgh taken [...]

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