Saturday 15 November 2014

Devilled Dogs at the Traverse

Is this the cutest Traverse news ever?

http://www.traverse.co.uk/news/help-the-traverse-find-max/

I absolutely can't wait for Iain Finlay Macleod's The Devil Masters - it sounds like just the kind of dark insight into the city's middle classes which Edinburgh specialises in (think Shallow Grave, Filth, etc.), and the perfect antidote to sentimental Yuletime slodge - but am slightly concerned about the super-cute casting call recently issued by the Traverse. Less than a month to train a terrier?? They'll be lucky! - though perhaps the chance to see badly behaved canine thesps is just another reason that this is a must see....

Monday 21 July 2014

Opinions in the bookshop

Agree:

 

























 - with the right garden and the right library I could be blissfully content for ever more.

Couldn't agree less:


SACRILEGE!!! - have these people READ (the sublime, hilarious, utterly perfect and different in every way to the twee dirge-secreter "Sandy" McCall Smith) Maupin??? - or perhaps every city gets the chronicler it deserves.... poor Edinburgh.