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The Edinburgh Book Lovers' Tour & Literary Pub Crawl are led by Allan Foster, author of 'The Literary Traveller In Edinburgh' & 'The Literary Traveller In Scotland', published by Mainstream. "Edinburgh has a rich literary tradition pre-dating the Scottish Enlightenment; small wonder then that it was named UNESCOs first 'City of Literature' two years ago. Allan Foster, author of several literary guides to Scotland, leads you around the Old Town haunts of Edinburgh's literati. From Boswell's rooms, past Scott's legal stomping grounds, over the resting place of Knox and onto the 'birthplace' of Sherlock Holmes. Inevitably JK Rowling, and that bloody dog [Greyfriar's Bobby], crop up along the way, but Allan treats all with humour and intelligence. Aviod the kilted shyters roaming the Royal mile, looking for a quick Harry Potter buck, and take this tour." **** Three Weeks
10.30AM
& 1.30PM OUTSIDE THE WRITERS’
MUSEUM, LADY STAIR’S CLOSE OCTOBER - APRIL: SATURDAY ONLY AT 1.30 PM |
To
discover literary Edinburgh, you have to walk it, defying Robert
Louis Stevenson's "bleak winds" and exploring
Dorothy Wordsworth's "passes of dark stone",
simply because there is no other way of penetrating the ancient
wynds, closes and creeper-ridden burial grounds of this city,
whose literary past is written on it's dark and hoary face. 'The
Edinburgh Literary Traveller' (see 'buy the book' above) recounts
many lives and tales, but to squeeze 500 years of literary
Edinburgh into one single volume is an impossible task.
There is so much more to tell, and so much more to see. Having
travelled the length and breadth of Edinburgh researching and
photographing the sites featured in the book, I can assure you
the pickings are rich, the locations diverse and stimulating,
and with over 500 years to choose from, everybody's reading taste
is catered for from Robert Burns to J.K.
Rowling. So why not accompany Allan Foster
on a book lovers' odyssey around the Old Town to explore more
of literary Edinburgh's fascinating and never-ending story, complete
with commentary, readings, dramatisations and lots of laughter.