Marsali Taylor grew up locally but now lives in Shetland. A qualified tourist guide and keen historian, Marsali is launching the first book in the Shetland Mysteries series at Stockbridge Library.

Stockbridge Library has had to close temporarily for an emergency repair. We’ll let you know when the library is back open for business.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
UPDATE – The Library has now reopened

How can chopsticks help your diet? Are all biscuits as bad as each other? And how do you motivate yourself to exercise as the nights draw in and the weather deteriorates?

Richard Irving
The head gardener at Jupiter Artland talks about his work at the sculpture park. He has helped many of the artists install their pieces on site, including Charles Jencks’s landforms.
Wednesday 5th Spetember, 7 – 8pm, Blackhall Library
To book call 0131 529 5595 or email blackhall.library@edinburgh.gov.uk

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’.

We’re delighted to say that after an enforced closure for repairs Stockbridge Library is ready to reopen tomorrow (Tuesday 14th August) at 10.00am.

Cal McGill, a part-time PhD oceanography student with a macabre interest in floating corpses, comes across a young woman in dirty clothes with scabs and cracked lips. She explains how her friend died three years ago and was fished out of the sea. This isn’t the only unexplained death haunting McGill however…

Stockbridge Library is currently closed for emergency repairs. We will be operating either from a mobile library vehicle on Dean Park Lane or at Life Care (2 Cheyne Street):
Monday 2nd July : Lifecare 10-12 / mobile 1.30-3.30pm
Tuesday 3rd July : Mobile 10-12 / Lifecare 1-5pm (Bookbug Rhymetime Lifecare Gallery Room 10.30am)
Wednesday 4th July: Lifecare 10-5
Thursday 5th July : Mobile 10-12/ 1-5 Lifecare
Friday 6th July: Lifecare 10-5
Saturday 7th July : Mobile 10-12.

Lorraine E.

Due to unforseen circumstances Stockbridge Library currently has no telephone or network communication. Apologies for any inconvenience, we will update you when the issue has been rectified.