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Alasdair Gray's Fleck
Date	Location
After a sell-yer-granny-for-a-ticket debut at Edinburgh International Book Festival last year, Alasdair Gray's modern adaptation of Faust gets another outing courtesy of Margins Book and Music Festival, with an equally starry cast including Alan Bissett, Allan Wilson, Zoe Strachan, Louise Welsh, Chiew Siah-Tei, Rodge Glass, Carl MacDougall and Gray himself. View full details and ticket info
26 Feb 6pm Part of Margins Book & Music Festival.	Òran Mór, Glasgow

Alex Gray: A Pound of Flesh
Date	Location
Alex Gray reads from and signs copies of her latest crime novel. Booking is essential. View full details
5 Mar 6pm	Waterstone's West End, Edinburgh

Alex Gray and Ian Rankin
Date	Location
A Pound of Flesh is the latest novel from Alex Gray, an author who 'Brings Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin evokes Edinburgh' (Daily Mail). She is joined by Rankin himself, whose most recent novel, The Impossible Dead, is the second in his series starring Malcolm Fox, a DI who investigates bent coppers. Part of Aye Write! View full details
10 Mar 3.30pm	Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Aline Templeton
Date	Location
The local crime writer discusses the latest in her DI Marjory Fleming series, Cradle to Grave. Booking is essential. View full details
21 Mar 6.30pm	Drumbrae Library Hub, Edinburgh

Allan Morrison
Date	Location
It's 50 years since trams ran in Glasgow. Grab this unique opportunity to reminisce as you shoogle along on The Last Tram tae Auchenshuggle, under the guidance of its best selling author, Allan Morrison. The personality of Last Tram's heroine, Big Aggie MacDonald, the tram conductress, embodies the many colourful characters employed as conductors and conductresses. Their patter and antics are still legend in the minds of Glaswegians of a certain age. Edinburgh folks are also invited! Hurry… View full details
11 Mar 3.30pm	Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Beyond Macbeth: Shakespeare in Scottish Collections
Date	Location
An exhibition looking at the Shakespeare collections held by institutions in Scotland, and what the Bard's work means in the Scotland of today. Includes a rare First Folio edition, and a number of Quartos. View full details
9 Dec 2011–29 Apr 2012 Times vary	National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

Blackwell Book Group
Date	Location
Share the reading experience with a group of fellow booklovers, with an evening of friendly discussion. View full details
20 Feb 6pm	Blackwells, Edinburgh

The Blackwell Children's Book Group
Date	Location
An hour of friendly chat about books for 8–11 year olds, every month. View full details
20 Feb 5.45pm	Blackwells, Edinburgh

Body Bags / Simonides
Date	Location
Simonides was the Greek poet who wrote one of the classical world's most famous epitaphs, for the Spartan dead at Thermopylae. Here some of his epitaphs appear in translations by poet Robert Crawford alongside evocative, square format, black and white photographs by Norman McBeath. View full details
5 Mar–2 Apr Mon–Sun 10am–10pm	Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Book Launch: Catriona Child
Date	Location
Edinburgh novelist Catriona Child launches her new novel Trackman. Booking is essential. View full details
18 Feb Noon	Waterstone's West End, Edinburgh

Book Launch: Hazel McHaffie
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Former nurse Hazel McHaffie launches her second novel, Saving Sebastian, an examination of medical ethics. View full details
28 Feb 6.30pm	Blackwells, Edinburgh

Book Signing: Dougie Bell
Date	Location
Author Dougie Bell talks about his two books Two Cooks and a Suitcase and The Half Canned Cooks at this signing accompanied by chilli and drinks. Booking is essential. View full details
16 Dec Sun 6–7pm & 7–8pm	Lupe Pintos, Edinburgh

Border Crossing: Simon Barraclough & Gill Andrews
Date	Location
Brought up in Huddersfield, Simon Barraclough moved south to London and his first collection Los Alamos Mon Amour (Salt) was praised for its cinematic fluency and its poems about the 'restless modernity' of city life. In his new collection, Neptune Blue, he has set his sights skyward. Former London lawyer Gill Andrews is from Lancashire and currently lives in Edinburgh. Her first pamphlet, The Thief, has been published by HappenStance Press. She was shortlisted for the Picador prize in 2010… View full details and ticket info
18 Mar 11.30am	The Undercroft, St Andrews

Border Crossings: Jane McKie & John Siddique
Date	Location
The winner of the Edwin Morgan competition in 2011, Jane McKie lives in Edinburgh and combines teaching with running her own publishing press. She reads with poet and film-maker John Siddique, author of Poems from a Northern Soul and recently Full Blood (Salt), an exploration of beauty, sensuality and mortality. Presented with the support of the Live Literature Fund administered by the Scottish Book Trust. Part of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry Festival. View full details and ticket info
16 Mar 2.15pm	Town Hall, St Andrews

By Leaves We Live
Date	Location
Ten delicate paper sculptures left anonymously in various Edinburgh cultural and literary institutions over the last year have delighted and intrigued a growing number of fans. This exhibition offers the opportunity of a close encounter with two of them – the bookends for this anonymous artistic project, the first and the last of these enchanting tributes to the book, both gifted to the Scottish Poetry Library just off Edinburgh’s Canongate. Part of StAnza: Scotland's International Poetry… View full details
14 Mar–18 Mar Wed–Sun 10am–10pm	Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Café Voices
Date	Location
A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song. View full details
15 Feb 7pm Songs, stories and music in this special session entitled 'Cupid's Arrow' in honour of you-know-what-day…	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh
7 Mar 7pm As part of the Goddess series of events marking International Women's Day and Women's History Month…	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

The Coming of the Unicorn
Date	Location
Launch event for Duncan Williamson’s posthumous collection of folk and fairy tales for children, collected from the traditions of the travelling people, as well as the crofters, farmers, and shepherds he met along the way. Ages 8+. Part of Ceilidh Culture. View full details
22 Mar 7pm	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

Discovering Family History at NLS
Date	Location
Delve into your family's past as NLS reveals research techniques in this practical workshop. Includes a short tour of the library. Please book. View full details
21 Feb 6pm 19 Mar 10am	National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

A Drunk Woman Looks at the Thistle: Karen Dunbar
Date	Location
Written by crime novelist Denise Mina as a response to Hugh MacDiarmid's seminal 1926 poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, this one-woman drama offers an entertaining and compelling look at the idea of national identity. The play, performed by Chewin' the Fat star Karen Dunbar – hugely popular as a television comedian but also acclaimed as a serious actor – was previously produced at Glasgow's Oran Mor and won four star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe. Can the cultural slate be wiped clean? View full details and ticket info
18 Mar 3.30pm	Byre Theatre, St Andrews

Edinburgh Book Fair
Date	Location
Dealers from throughout Scotland sell antiquarian and second hand books, maps and prints. View full details
9 Mar Noon	Radisson Blu Hotel, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Book Fringe
Date	Location
Hosted by Word Power Books, this festival gives a platform to local publishers and writers, whether polemicists or comedians, during the capital's festival month. The Word Power bookshop is an intimate venue where authors can engage with their audience. View full details
8 Aug–22 Aug Times vary	Word Power Bookshop, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Creative Writers
Date	Location
Social meet-up for creative writers: most bring something to read and contributions have ranged from poetry, short stories, children's stories and flash fiction to excerpts from scripts and novels. There are also discussions on (usually) writing-related matters, such as getting a publisher or dealing with writers' block. View full details
23 Jan–3 Dec Mon 7–9.30pm	Pulp Fiction, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Book Festival
Date	Location
One of the world's biggest and most prestigious book festivals, the EIBF annually welcomes over 750 writers, poets, artists, politicians, journalists and thinkers from around the world to discuss, debate and review the world in which we live. With readings, debates, workshops every day, visitors can engage with world renowned authors and debut novelists, Nobel prize winners and children's illustrators. View full details
11 Aug–27 Aug Times vary	Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh

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