Portobello Book Festival: 3rd – 5th October 2025Tickets for all events are free and available from Portobello Library The programme for this year’s festival was officially launched at the library last night. Copies are now available to pick up from the library and you’ll find them in various places around Portobello too. Tickets will be available to collect in person from the library from 10am on Saturday morning, 13th September.

Buy The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay: The compelling historical novel inspired by the pioneering Scottish aviator by Johnston, Flora (ISBN: 9780749031473) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

The third Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival will be taking place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th September and I'm delighted to be part of the blogging team once again. Over the next few weeks in the lead up to the festival, all of us on the blogging team will be featuring the authors who are taking part. As the website says, this festival is celebration of writing for, by, and about women.

June the 9th is Saint Columba’s day, a saint who has a special place for me, as somehow, he feels bound up in my own journey to Faith. When I was 19, and moving from  atheism, towards a great…

This week's topic: Authors Who Live In My Country Today's topic was submitted by Jennifer @ Funk-N-Fiction and we've to come up with ten authors who live in our country (or state). I've chosen ten authors who live in Scotland and chosen a book from each which I especially enjoyed. These are authors I rate highly and whose books I highly recommend.

image courtesy of my Anthology of poems for Leant and Holy Week The Word in the Wilderness, I set just one of my Stations of the cross sonnets for Good Friday, Station XII, but as this blog is not …