Lothian Life the magazine for Edinburgh and the Lothians

Some thoughts on writing and publishing – and mostly recommendations for your next best reads!

To the Festival Theatre stage this winter comes pantomime, Adventures of Peter Pan (25 Nov–31 Dec)

Book Week Scotland is an annual celebration of books and reading that takes place across the country. During Book Week, people of all ages and walks of life come together to share the joy of reading.

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Bonnie Garmus, Tessa Hadley and Eleanor Catton  speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

If you’ve ever rented terrible films on VHS, The Last Gun will give you instant nostalgia.

I went time travelling with cats at the Edinburgh International Book festival. The theme of Kimberlie Hamilton’s colourful new children’s book is ‘A History of the World According to Cats.’

In 1974, four musicians lock themselves in an underground recording studio to make a hit album, unaware of a toxic substance in the walls driving them to madness.

The ‘Princess of Hearts’ makes an exclusive appearance at the Pleasance to set the record straight in an hour of drag, video, puppetry and audience participation.

Is there anybody out there who hasn’t read Lessons in Chemistry? Who hasn’t heard of Lessons in Chemistry? To say that Bonnie Garmus has had phenomenal success with her first novel is an understatement.

A woman’s journey as she navigates life: strength, hope and triumph.

A drama with music from Wild Rose Productions, St Johns Church DRT Room.

Young Edinburgh Storytellers weave music and Scottish legends in the bowels of the Netherbow Theatre transformed into the mythical Otherworld.

Seven women meet at the funeral of a prominent politician who they all loved, and discover what they really meant to the ‘golden boy’.

‘Hillary and I may not share the same blood, but we share the same spirit.’

Artificial Intelligence is about to explode as the number one problem of our age. In fact our age, and species, may well be about to morph unrecognisably because of it.

Now in its second year, Brain Hemingway is Erin Murray Quinlan’s exploration of writer’s block, self esteem and believing in your craft.

With a title like that who could resist going along to hear Craig Graham and Mike Stirling talk about their  jobs (jobs? – more like malarkey!) as editors of the Beano comic.