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We blogged aboutThe Search for Sherlock Holmesthe other day – well in case you missedthis entertaining and informative documentaryyou can catch it now on the STV player.
Edinburgh City Libraries Best book covers of 2009? Vote for your favourite
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The Book Design Review is a blog dedicated to the best, and sometimes the worst, of book design, book covers, and book jackets
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The winner of this year’s Booktrust Teenage Prize is the Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which tells the story of a boy who is raised and educated by ghosts after the murder of his family.
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‘Genius… Kennedy’s skill as a writer continues to be astonishing. Every metaphor, every image hits like a painfully well-aimed arrow.’
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Alan Taylor, journalist, writer and broadcaster drew out a very lively performance from Iain Banks in the Reference department of Edinburgh’s Central Library on Wednesday night. After reading the prologue ...
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If you’re in the mood for something a little more unusual: Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band’s Carols and Capers is a very up tempo English folk treatment full of boars heads, mummers and sweet mulled ...
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Baroque, digressive, kinetic, teeming with big ideas and grand theories, it’s a novel to get lost in … gripping’ The Times on Transition
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Join in the festive fun at Edinburgh City Libraries! Blackhall, Corstorphine, Oxgangs, Moredun and Piershill are just some of the libraries hosting Christmas-themed events over the coming days and weeks. ...
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One for Saint Andrew’s Day. In 1897 William Hole began work on a mural for the central hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery here in Edinburgh. The gallery is currently closed for refurbishment ...
Edinburgh City Libraries amazing video from the New Zealand Book Council
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Today it’s theWilliam Hill Sports Book of the Year. The winneris Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Harold Larwood, a forgotten titan of English cricket. This is the second time Hamilton has ...
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The winners of the 2009 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children’s Books have been announced. Click on a title to borrow the book from your local library.
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Royal Mile poorhouse to toast of Hollywood - HE WAS the Scots musical maestro whose career saw him work with stars such as Petula Clark, Adam Faith, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett and Sammy Davis Jnr.
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The Rise and Fall o’ Charlie charts in song the rise & fall of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from his arrival as a 21 year old in the North West of Scotland ...
Lin Anderson, Dr Steve Sturdy and Ian Rankin discuss forensics, with Ken MacLeod in the chair « Tale
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The Central Reference Department was filled on Wednesday night with an audience intent on hearing about the role forensic science has in the writing of contemporary crime fiction, and the pros and cons of dna testing.
