Stuart Campbell's Blog

The letter

Posted by RLD on 1st March 2010

I’m still not convinced that I can’t take them with me. When I first started collecting books, and Stevenson in particular, the decades seemed to stretch so far ahead that…

Group confession

Posted by RLD on 22nd February 2010

I’m not certain if a blogspot is the best place for a confession. In this secular age it may have to do as an alternative to kneeling in the dark…

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Posted by Stuart Campbell on 22nd September 2009

Now that the bulldozers have moved into Charlotte Square to scoop up the turf flattened and bleached by thousands of feet during the Edinburgh International Book Festival, it is time…

Train of thought

Posted by Stuart Campbell on 13th September 2009

‘Just go into the shop and sign your books’. Not feeling in an egomaniacal frame of mind it seemed a difficult instruction, but I wasn’t going to argue with the…

The Launch

Posted by Stuart Campbell on 16th August 2009

Initally it seemed like an early festival performance of Ienesco’s The Chairs as the frantic host (me) rushed to the door of Stevenson College’s stylish Music Box scanning the bleak…