Alex Wood
Thresholds – Roddy Simpson
Thresholds is a series of lyrical, black and white photographs, taken between 1994 and the present, by Roddy Simpson, a photographer, photo-historian, writer and lecturer who lives in Linlithgow.
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A Man’s Game
In Scotland, we write books with big moral purposes: Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Jekyll and Hyde, The House with the Green Shutters. Edinburgh-based writer, Alan Ness, has pulled off an unusual literary coup.
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What Future for the School Librarian?
Edinburgh Council has found itself in the middle of a major spat over proposals to reduce librarians in schools.
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Nature’s Peace, A Celebration of Scotland’s Watershed
Scotland is traditionally divided into north and south, Highland and Lowland, but Peter Wright’s ambitious works, Ribbon of Wildness and Walking with Wildness offered another perspective, an east-west divide based on the watershed. From Carter Bar to Cape Wrath, the watershed creates a line dividing the waters flowing eastwards into the North Sea from those flowing west into the Atlantic.
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The North End of the Possible by Andrew Philip: review
Linlithgow-based poet, Andrew Philip, was much praised for his first collection, ‘The Ambulance Box’. His second collection, ‘The North End of the Possible’, (Salt, £12.99 RRP) is a powerful volume of verse which subtly shakes any residual complacency from the reader. Read the rest of this entry »
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New Head of School appointed at Moray House
Dr Rowena Arshad, currently Head of Edinburgh University’s Institute for Education, Community and Society has been appointed by the University as Head of Moray House School of Education and took over that prestigious post on 1st April. Read the rest of this entry »
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