We are fortunate at The Edinburgh Bookshop and The Children’s Bookshop that we have a number of local authors who enthusiastically support us. One of those is Lari Don, author of the award-winning First Aid for Fairies and other Fabled Beasts. Whilst having a chat when she was in the shop one day, she mentioned [...]

Alexander McCall Smith is one of our favourite local authors; he’s also a very entertaining speaker. We’re therefore very excited to be hosting the launch of The Double Comfort Safari Club, the newest book in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, on Wednesday 3rd March. The event is being held in Christ Church, Bruntsfield [...]

Single?  Want to meet someone lovely but are fed up with meeting blokes who just want to tell you about their dull job and brag about their New Town flat and BMW?  Or being set up with girls who want you to be interested in handbags or how they nearly sat next to Brad Pitt [...]

Over the Christmas break we did some planning re events for The Edinburgh Bookshop and since we came back to work last Tuesday we’ve been busily finalising details…
Our next event is actually this Monday evening when Ian Rankin will be joining us for the first in an occasional series called The Books That Made Me.  [...]

Regular readers will remember that we planned to start reissuing the Jill series by Ruby Ferguson this year.  Well, they’ve been delayed (one printer sadly going into administration, pressure of work in other areas of the business and you can imagine how time-consuming setting up the new bookshop has been!) but sneaking in under the [...]

The Edinburgh Bookshop now has its own website.  Do go and wonder at its loveliness and while you’re there you can sign up to the newsletter so that we can keep you updated as to forthcoming events.  I’m a huge fan of the site and think Malcolm’s done a really good job – next we’re [...]

… I imagine that we all be sharing a bottle or two of fizz and heaving a sigh of relief that The Edinburgh Bookshop is open for business, and hopefully there will have been no major crises and hopefully we’ll have had a great day’s trading.  Hopefully, all the books that we ordered on Friday (we were in the [...]

The Edinburgh Bookshop will be opening on Saturday 5th September with a glittering launch (aren’t all launches ‘glittering’?  And we do love an excuse for a party) on the 3rd.  Consequently, we need a manager for the new shop and although we’ll probably be advertising in the usual places I thought I’d flag it up [...]

Despite all our email problems yesterday, a very exciting email managed to battle its way through.  It was from The Bookseller telling us that we’ve been short-listed in The Bookseller Retail Awards in the Walker Books Children’s Independent of the Year category.  We are very surprised, and very pleased and really looking forward to the awards [...]

Our email seems to be on the fritz so if you’ve emailed any of us in the last few days it might be worth calling us to see if we got it.  It doesn’t seem that anything is getting through on the Fidra Books emails.  Malcolm is going to call our ISP people when he [...]