Stuart Campbell's Blog
The letter
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
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
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
‘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
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…