“The Green Pencil Award is surely one of the most important children’s writing competitions there is. Year after year it fires up children’s imaginations about topics that really affect us all. I’m very much looking forward to hear what the boys and girls will say about ‘Birds & Beasties’. I know it will be imaginative, thought-provoking – and, most of all, exciting!”
- Edinburgh Makar Ron Butlin

We proudly present a Tales of One City first: an exclusive short story by local author Mike Nicholson and some of the children at Oxgangs Library – the result of their “Write a story in 60 minutes” session. Read on and enjoy…
No-one knew who the stranger was. If they noticed him at all, then they might have wondered what his bulging backpack contained. Perhaps they might have guessed in which countries his battered safari hat had become so bleached by the sun.

A fantastic selection of new audio books have just been added to our OneClickdigital audiobook service.  Over the next six months we will be adding new audiobooks every month to double the number of titles available.
New titles include:

If, like us, you’ve been intrigued and excited by Susan Phillipsz’s Timeline sound art installation at this year’s Edinburgh Art Festival, we’ve got something else you might enjoy.
This Wednesday at Stockbridge Library Eden Undulata presents ‘Hearing Edinburgh’.