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- 1Edinburgh bookseller opens up shop for the day▼Waking up the bookshop from its slumbers, prodding the paragraphs and wrangling the words, getting the Pages Posse ready
A bookseller in Edinburgh has described opening the shop in the morning, checking the stock and gathering the staff — the 'Pages Posse' — ahead of the day's trade. The post, shared with photographs of the shop, has drawn a warm response from the online book-loving community, where readers regularly swap notes on independent bookshops and the ritual of a quiet morning among the shelves.
- 2Ian Rankin to launch new novel The Heights in Edinburgh▼# Edinburgh peeps! We have the hometown gig for Ian Rankin's upcoming The Heights on October 14th! You can book tickets
The Edinburgh Bookshop is hosting a hometown event with Ian Rankin on October 14th to mark the release of his upcoming novel The Heights. Tickets are on sale now through the bookshop's booking page, and fans of the Rebus author's Scottish crime fiction are being encouraged to book early for the evening.
- 3Poets mark end of September ahead of National Poetry Day●And thus ends September, And Summer's last ember Still flickers & glows, The colour of an autumn leaf, As the river of S
Readers and booksellers are sharing seasonal verse to close out September, with one Edinburgh bookshop posting a short autumn poem about summer's last ember flowing 'into the Firth of Time'. The exchange is tied to National Poetry Day, which falls the next day, prompting people to swap their favourite poems and celebrate the changing of the seasons in verse.