The Waverley Gazette

Happy St Andrew's Day 30 November 2020

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Waverley's 'Malt Whisky Map' by Neil Wilson makes the news in Frankfurt (with a man in pink ears)

London Book Fair 12th March - 14th March 2A67

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Some pictures of the Commonplace notebooks in Friedrichshafen, Germany

Happy news for a Friday... Martina Kraus has kindly sent us pictures of the display in her store in Friedrichshafen, Germany, of the Waverley Commonplace Notebooks, now on sale. Thank you for the lovely pictures. We're delighted to see the notebooks in such a beautiful setting, and they sit well among the many German language travel books on Scotland. Hope they go to happy homes (Pictures courtesy: RavensBuch GmbH)

Jill Colonna's Teatime In Paris in 'BBC GOOD FOOD MAGAZINE'

Jill Colonna's latest book appears in the BBC Good Food Magazine, in a feature on afternoon tea, thanks to Jill's baking friend Becky Chester. Teatime in Paris shows you how to make lovely and seemingly difficult recipes very easily.

'Aren’t they awfully, well, Scottish?"

'Aren’t they awfully, well, Scottish?"

Jill Colonna of 'Mad About Macarons' and Hamlyn's Oats share snowballs

https://hamlynsoats.co.uk/recipes/no-bake-snowballs/

Waverley Scotland at the Leipzig Bookfair 15-18 March 2018

Delighted to announce Waverley Scotland and real cloth tartan notebooks will be represented by our managing agent in Germany, Dinu Popa, at the Leipzig Book Fair:

Sue Reid Sexton to appear at Dundee Womens Festival

Sue Reid Sexton appears at the Dundee Womens Festival on Thursday 15^th March 2018 from 6 – 7pm, in her event: “Writing on the Road: staying happy and creative in a campervan - book event with Sue Reid Sexton – ‘Writing on the Road: Campervan love and the joy of solitude’ ”

‘Our time in The Sunday Post’ at The West End Festival

When Jill Scott and Bill Hicks began working for The Sunday Post in the 1970s, the paper was listed in The Guinness Book of Records as the best-read paper in the world. It sold over 1.5 million copies a week. Jill Scott and Bill Hicks have recently been promoting their book on the history of the Glasgow Central Hotel (Waverley Books) and are helping to promote Bill Anderson’s book, God Bless Mrs McGinty – My Life and The Sunday Post (Waverley Books). (Bill Anderson was Editor of The Sunday Post 1968-1990 and Glasgow based HON Man – holiday on nothing).

Otter Books, Nelson, BC, Canada - Waverley Real Cloth Tartan notebooks

Woodbridge Emporium: Jan Ellis's The Bookshop Detective, and A Summer of Surprises on display in Suffolk

Romance in France, romance in London, romance in Devon.

Jan Ellis lives in Wells, Somerset and is an academic. So just how does an academic turn her hand to writing a funny romantic novel? And funny with an edge? For example, in The Bookshop Detective the main character Eleanor has got married for the second time, but refuses to move in with her husband. She does not want to leave the lovely sanctuary of her tiny cottage, attached to her business, a bookshop called ‘The Reading Room’ in a seaside town in Devon.

A dog, a pair of ears and a place in the west country...

We asked Jan Ellis, author of just published 'The Bookshop Detective' where she finds ideas for her books. Jan has a new book coming out in May - 'French Kisses and A London Affair', two novellas in one book. Jan has shared her thoughts on why setting is important, and what a writer should use everyday... Writing about what you know is one successful element. And it sounds like a dog is vital.

Author Jerry Brannigan to speak at the Robert Burns Studies Annual Conference

New Year's been and gone and suddenly - it's Burns' time again...

Real cloth tartan notebooks on sale in Tsutaya Bookstore, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan

The Waverley real cloth tartan notebooks are on sale in the Tsutaya Bookstore in Daikanyama, a stylish area of Tokyo

Mavis's Shoe by Sue Reid Sexton in Dutch - 'Het schoentje van Rosie'

Het is maart 1941. Lenny Gillespie loopt te zoeken naar haar kleine zusje Rosie in de straten van Clydebank, een industriesstadje bij Glasgow. Het luchtalarm gaat af, maar dit keer is het geen loos alarm. Urenlang vallen de bommen op de stad. Lenny, gek van angst om haar zusje Rosie, weigert een schuilkelder in te gaan. Don ontfermt de oude meneer Tait zich over haar. Hij voert haar weg uit de brandende, verwoeste stad en neemt haar mee naar een dorpje in de heuvels. Daar zijn ze veilig.

October approaches

Thanks for reading our October newsletter. As the stormy days arrive in Scotland, we are looking forward to several events: this weekend, WIgtown Book Festival has invited John McShane, co-author of Robert Burns in Edinburgh to speak on Sunday about his career in comics; we are preparing for the world's biggest book fair in Frankfurt, from 20th October. In late September author Sue Reid Sexton gave an event at Glasgow's Women's Library for her book Writing on the Road and was interviewed by the BBC - a piece that made the news later on BBC2. Author Jerry Brannigan, who led on the writing of Robert Burns in Edinburgh, gave a talk at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.