Something very special for Christmas 2025 – Alexander McCall Smith poems at the Westminster Carols by Candlelight MS concert, 2025 – with Simon Callow among the illustrious readers At the link below, you will find readings of four of Sandy’s poems (new) at the Westminster Carols by Candlelight MS concert which took place […]
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Travelling with Alexander McCall Smith this Autumn – Part One Photographs by Emily Macinnes for Braemar Festival at the Fife Arms and Jan Rutherford on the tour. Alexander headed north to the Highlands last week for the Braemar Literary Festival at the Fife Arms Hotel and surrounding area. Alexander was delighted to take part
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Great Tapestry scoops Inclusion Award The Great Tapestry of Scotland team is proud and pleased to announce that the centre was awarded the South of Scotland Thistle Awards regional award for ‘Inclusion’. The centre now qualifies for the National awards in November. What the judges said… Ranked in the top 10% of Tripadvisor listings worldwide,
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Edinburgh Art Fair to Host Andrew CRUMMY and the Cancer Tapestry For more than a decade now, PPW have had the privilege of working alongside the outstanding artist Andrew Crummy MBE. Andrew is the artist behind the panels of The Great Tapestry of Scotland. He worked closely with historian Alistair Moffat and 1000+ stitchers to
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Summer Festivals draw to a close for 2025 The Summer festivals have drawn to a close as we turn the page into Autumn. And what a successful year it has been. A huge thank you to all of the festival directors, programmers, runners, tech teams, green-room teams and booksellers. And of course to the authors,
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Alistair Moffat awarded an MBE Alistair Moffat MBE, an award-winning writer and historian, is author of more than 30 books mostly on aspects of Scotland and Scottish history. He is also the founder and director of Borders Book Festival which was taking place in Melrose as the news broke. Previously he was Director of the Edinburgh Festival
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