Unusual war grave in Dalry Cemetery: father & son. Same names, same age at death, one fell in WWI, the other in WWII.
This inspired my short story for WWI charity anthology To End All Wars several years ago, illustrated by Kate Charlesworth, which you can read here on my blog https://www.woolamaloo.org.uk/memorial-to-the-mothers/
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #AmWriting #History #Histoire
Currently on BBC Sounds: Ian McMillan hosts poets Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford & Hannah Lavery at the Edinburgh Festival
Hannah Lavery performs “Edinburgh is a Story”; “My Work is Loving the World”; & “Miss Has Started Using Sunbeds”
Robert Crawford reads “Camera Obscura” & “Mons Meg”
Liz Lochhead reads a selection of poems including “Trouble Is Not My Middle Name”; “Coming To Poetry”; & “Song For A Dirty Diva”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002htf2
Last day off before @cymerafestival , so going over notes & possible questions ahead of chairing a three-author panel this weekend https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/cymera25-events/2025/4/10/home-sweet-home
And of course I'll be going to a bunch of events to listen to them all weekend. Looking forward to catching up with folks.
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Books #Livres #Cymera #Cymera2025 #CymeraFestival #ScienceFiction #GarethPowell #EMFaulds #StarkHolborn #BookFestival
Val McDermid – A Kick Up the Arts Live Podcast Recording
9 July, Portobello Bookshop, Edinburgh. Online & in person, tickets £0–£8.99
Join Val McDermid and Nicola Meighan for a special live recording of the Scottish Arts & Culture Podcast, A Kick Up the Arts, to celebrate the paperback publication of Val’s latest book, QUEEN MACBETH.
https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/val-mcdermid-with-nicola-meighan-queen-macbeth
#Scottish #literature #podcast #Edinburgh #ValMcDermid #historicalfiction
Lavender Menace: Queer Bookselling in Edinburgh
19 July, City Art Centre, Edinburgh. Free, ticketed
This talk explores the history of queer bookselling in Edinburgh, from the early bookstalls to the opening of Lavender Menace and West & Wilde to the resurgence of independent bookshops.
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lavender-menace-queer-bookselling-edinburgh
On Thursday 19th we will be celebrating the launch of Dark Crescent by #Edinburgh scribe @lyndseycroal , with tales inspired by #Scottish folklore, published by Luna Press
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/events-1/lyndsey-croal-dark-crescent-book-launch
#books #livres #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #LyndseyCroal #BookLaunch #BookEvent #AuthorEvent #DarkCrescent #Fantasy #Scotland #Ecosse #bookshops #librairies #bookstodon
More book events fun: my chum Rachel Plummer is the special guest for @TheEdinburghBookshop 's Under Fives Storytime with the charming The Big Day, for #PrideMonth
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/events-1/the-big-day-a-storytime-special-with-rachel-plummer
#books #livres #ChildrensBooks #LivresJeunesse #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #RachelPlummer #TheBigDay #PictureBooks #bookstodon #UnderFivesStorytime #bookshops #librairies #Pride
Scottish Scholars & Secrets: Developments of Dark Academia in Edinburgh
24 June, free online
Natasha Anderson finds roots of Dark Academia running through Edinburgh’s gothic literary traditions, in works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, & Ian Rankin.
Part of Reading Scotland from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
@litstudies
https://www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scotland/
#Scottish #literature #gothic #DarkAcademia #Edinburgh #RobertLouisStevenson #MurielSpark #IanRankin
"But that's excessive, and too little..." https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54599045468/in/dateposted/
Norman MacCaig #poetry on a planter, Rose Street
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #NormanMacCaig #ScottishLiterature #Art #Sculpture #RoseStreet
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day…
—Robert Louis Stevenson, “Bed in Summer”
published in A CHILD’S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885)
#Scottish #literature #poem 3poetry #summer #kidlit #19thcentury #Victorian #Edinburgh #RobertLouisStevenson
🏴 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**
>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.
🔗 https://www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/.
#Books #Bookstodon #Edinburgh #Scotland @bookstodon
ALT Book Fringe 2025
4–29 August, Edinburgh
Entirely run & curated by three of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – Argonaut Books, Lighthouse – Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop, & Typewronger – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
https://www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-fringe-2025-alt-edition-returns
Scottish Scholars & Secrets: Developments of Dark Academia in Edinburgh – from 24 June 2025
Natasha Anderson finds roots of Dark Academia running through Edinburgh’s gothic literary traditions, in works by Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, & Ian Rankin
@litstudies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahpagiSHK78
#Scottish #literature #gothic #Edinburgh #DarkAcademia #RobertLouisStevenson #MurielSpark #IanRankin
