The Edinburgh Bookshop

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Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area

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**GLASGOW FOLK** What you doing tomorrow night? 👀 The 'Nae Borders' comedy night only happens once a year, and every year it is magnificent without fail. If you are free, you should definitely come along!! 😃👇

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I miss thaim. Miss their quait
haans restin lowssed
oan dusty overalls
deen wi the day’s wark,
wachty buits ackwart
in their sklaik o glaur
or pentit spleiter…

—Sheila Templeton, “Workin Men”
from 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘓𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴: New Writing Scotland 34 (ASL, 2016)
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Sheila Templeton WORKIN MEN I miss thaim. Miss their quait haans restin lowssed oan dusty overalls deen wi the day’s wark, wachty buits ackwart in their sklaik o glaur or pentit spleiter; the carefu wye they sat on buses, gaan hame. My granda’s waak the pleesure o his waak his hertsome dander up Station Road lang widden jyner’s rule pokin oot the nairra pooch o his dungers spleet-new saadist furrin his jaicket. An my faither, tall chiel swingin alang a hyne-awa railway line lang sicht taakin swatch o aathing unner his ontak; fish-plates, bowts, ivery sleeper in its cinner bed, on the keevee for onything amissin – yet his een shairp-set oan the blae far-awa, the mischancie o twa bairns, heelster-gowdie ower steel-glaizie rails – now racin lik a pair o slung-stanes tae walcome his hame-comin.
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“Glasgow is a magnificent city,” said McAlpin. “Why do we hardly ever notice that?”
“Because nobody imagines living here,” said Thaw […] “if a city hasn’t been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.”

—Alasdair Gray, 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘬
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