I found this poem over at Strange Magnetism and had to share it. Gorgeous isn't it? SCHEHERAZADE Tell me about the dream wher...

I've borrowed this excerpt from Ted Hughes' letter to his son Nicholas at the age of 24 from Brain Pickings which is a brilliant w...

My first priority in Paris last week was to visit Shakespeare & Company book shop. I was determined to go here since Elizabeth Welsh me...

 I mentioned in an earlier post that Chris Close is the official photographer at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. His author por...

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is over for me, although it continues in Charlotte Square, and I so wish I was st...

Edinburgh's anonymous book sculptor is back! I wrote about her ten literary offerings last year, discovered in various institutions ar...

Alexander McCall Smith Author of the series 44 Scotland St, Isabel Dalhousie and No 1. Ladies Detective Agency. McCall Smith has to...