Books & Literature in St Andrews

Ed Conway

The story of trade is the story of humanity. From the copper in Mesopotamian ploughs to the silicon atoms within the chip inside your smartphone, intricate glob…

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Book Salad

Book Salad meets at the end of the month at 6:30pm, usually on a Tuesday, and you're very welcome to join us.

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Jess Elliott Dennison on Vegetable Recipes

Jess Elliott Dennison is a food writer, cook and founder of Elliott’s, her studio in Marchmont, Edinburgh.

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Alice Strang on the Scottish Colourists

Samuel John Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson, George Leslie Hunter and Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell - a set of radical artists who enlivened the Scottish art sc…

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James Palmer on Charlemagne's Dream

The dynamic, expansionist dynasty that forged the middle ages.Today, the Carolingians are best known as the dynasty of Charlemagne.

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Erin Goeres on Nineteen Days in Autumn

Join Us for an Evening for a character-led history of the most famous year in English history.

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Jay Rayner for Nights Out in the Kitchen

Following his bestselling _Nights Out at Home,_ Jay Rayner returns to the kitchen to offer more inspiration to roll up your sleeves and reach for your favourite…

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Terry Deary on A History of the World in Ten Wars

Throughout the ages, each generation has faced the same questions: Am I willing to fight for my way of life?

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Thom Bateman on Home Made

Why Home Made? Because the best cooking - whatever its ambition - always begins there.Self-taught chef Thom Bateman has built an incredible career on his own te…

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Alice Oswald on Rhapsody: A Manifesto

Alice Oswald goes in search of poetry in its original, wildest form - before it was written down, before it belonged to a single voice - and finds it still spea…

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Frances Fowle on Claude Monet: A Life in Letters

The first major english-language publication dedicated to Monet's letters, expertly selected and richly illustrated with his paintings.Claude Monet's letters -…

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A Court of Splintered Harmony - Midnight Launch

The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War,…

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Susie Dent

A brand-new linguistic mystery from Countdown's resident lexicographer, Susie Dent, set in the city of Oxford.A mysterious letter. A silenced scholar.

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James Yorkston on Callum, Reine, Sylvie and Sparrow

From rural Scotland and the west coast of Ireland to Paris and beyond, musician and journalist Callum retraces the people, places and moments that have shaped h…

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Jeremy Lee on Kitchening

In this follow-up to the multi-award-winning _Cooking_ [/books/], Jeremy shows you how to make the most of local produce while finding joy in the simple act of…

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Nick Harkaway on The Taper Man

'Le carre's legacy is in good hands - smiley is back with a vengeance!' Ian rankin'note-perfect' Mick herronNick harkaway is the acclaimed author of _gnomon, th…

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Mary Lawson on Solace in Winter

It is deep winter, 1969. As the Vietnam War drives young men north across the Canadian border, widower Jack's quiet life is overturned by two accidents that hap…

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Alice Loxton on A History of Britain in 21 Paintings

From an image carried by St Augustine when he arrived on our shores in 597AD and a glittering portrait of a Tudor queen to Stubbs' majestic rendering of Whistle…

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John Boyne on The Weight of Angels

Rather than dying impoverished in Paris at forty-six, what if Oscar Wilde had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes at the start…

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Michael Simpson on Terminal City

Vancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning.

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Ashley Douglas on With My Own Hand

We welcome historian and translator ashley douglas to st andrews to talk about the life of marie maitland, a story of forbidden but enduring love, and the stren…

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Donna Ashworth on The Art of Being Easily Pleased

"Donna Ashworth's words are sunshine for the soul. And this new collection is full of her best work." - MATT HAIG"Donna is a human disco ball and this book will…

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Ian Rankin on The Heights

_The Heights_: a gleaming, high-end high-rise looming over Hyde Park. Newly built from steel and smoked glass, a billionaire's playground offering sumptuous sui…

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Ben Mervis on The Festive Baker

An expertly curated and extraordinary collection of more than 170 sweet and savory baking recipes to mark festive events, celebrations, and cultural traditions…

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