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Are Books Essential Items?

Date Published: 10th November 2020

Authors across the UK have come together to send a letter to the Prime Minister to urge him to consider books as essential items and in so doing, allow bookshops and libraries to remain open if they so wish during this time of Covid. For many of us books offer an escape when we are […]

Back in a Bookshop – At Last

Date Published: 1st July 2020

Alexander’s first visit to a bookshop as lockdown eases was to Topping & Company in Edinburgh. It’s good to be back amongst the bookshelves!

Getting Lost in a Bookshop

Date Published: 23rd June 2020

This week is Independent Bookshop Week and throughout the UK, bookshops are either re-opening their doors or making final preparations to re-open next week as the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of Covid-19 are eased. We celebrate their re-opening – whether they are the tiniest, much-loved independent or a local branch of a much larger chain. […]

Love and Tartan

An Evening with Alexander McCall Smith in St Andrews, UK
Date: 28 November 2017
Venue: Hope Park and Martyrs Church , KY16 9UY
Time: 8.00pm

Toppings present prodigious novelist, Alexander McCall Smith who returns to St Andrews to mark the continuation of his much-loved 44 Scotland Street series. A Time of Love and Tartan is the twelfth instalment of what, after its many years in The Scotsman, is the longest serial novel ever written. Encompassing tennis-playing Rwandan forest people, levitating Celtic saints, and a primary school […]

Who Built Scotland

Who Built Scotland? Alexander McCall Smith in Biggar, UK
Date: 2 November 2017
Venue: Corn Exchange, High Street, Biggar
Time: 7.30pm

Atkinson-Pryce Bookshop is hosting a celebration of the publication of  Who Built Scotland: A History of the Nation in Twenty-Five Buildings.  Three of the contributing authors, James Crawford, Alexander McCall Smith and James Robertson will gather on stage to talk about their choices in this remarkable new book. From Neolithic families, exiled hermits and ambitious royal dynasties to […]

Highland Bookshop

Alexander McCall Smith to cut ribbon on Fort William’s new bookshop

Date Published: 3rd July 2017

In a major boost to the high street of the adventure capital of the UK, The Highland Bookshop will be opened by Alexander McCall Smith, at 1pm on Friday 14th July. The first independent bookshop in Fort William for many decades is being set up by Kevin & Jayne Ramage, owners of the Watermill Bookshop […]