Welcome to Leith Walks, home of the original Trainspotting Tours and the book Choose Life. Choose Leith: Trainspotting on Location by Tim Bell, published by Luath Press.
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From the Blog
A Bumpy Ride
Listening to Irvine Welsh on BBC Radio 4 this morning, my first thought was that he regards the idea of Scottish 'independence' as some sort of literary construct or theatrical Brigadoon. Meanwhile, here in Scotland, we have to pay the bills, and the SNP's recent...
read moreA spring in the air
My, there's the clocks forward already! Wonderful, isn't it, how the year's markers keep coming. And what a terrific culture we have in Edinburgh and Scotland for new writing. This month I went to a seminar in Glasgow run by the Scottish Book Trust on the dark art of...
read moreCome if you can.
Is that the end of February already? My, how the winter weeks have flown by. Not that I have been cosy indoors, mind, oh no. I boldly said to a friend at Christmas 'Oh yes, I have a bike.' You know what she said? 'I've known you for five years and I've never seen you...
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