This week we are working on a very special fundraising event ... one that will tantalize your taste buds and get you ready for some summer reading! This Saturday, 5 June 2010, we are having an old-fashioned cake sale in the bookshops of the West Port and beyond.
After a great party on Friday night we are proud to declare the good ship WPBF '10 officially launched. Plenty of wine and beer was quaffed in her honour, whilst guests mingled, chatted (no doubt extremely intelligently) and generally enjoyed being in one of Edinburgh's finest bookshops. The secret trapdoor, homemade cake and slightly facetious election theme also seemed to go down pretty well, as did the programme itself.
Elizabeth and Michelle read two very different novels and two very different slices of the past, encountering spring cleaning and social etiquette anxieties along the way.
In the course of a few years Twitter has evolved from a silly-sounding social networking fad to an Internet phenomenon used and appreciated by millions. Today, you’re just as likely to find some of the world’s top publishers, politicians and businesses online, as you are to find the stereotypical ‘boring idiot’ tweeting about eating toast. Stephen Fry may have been derided for his championing of the Twits, but his profile has never been higher, nor his opinion more highly sought.
As the West Port Book Festival coincides with the Edinburgh International Film Festival this June, Nicola goes to the movies with one most insightful books about the film industry which delves into the dark underbelly of Independent cinema.
The students of the University of Edinburgh were informed on Thursday that in order to accommodate the high volume of traffic the main library is receiving during this exam period (rejoice, oh those of you in the real world!), a lecture hall is being made available for study space.
Jeff Howe at Crowdsourcing asked the internet: 'What if everyone on Twitter read one book?' People answered - and the answer was not 'the internet will end.' It was much more exciting than that.
It's no secret that the West Port team are fond of curling up with a book to read - but what do we choose? First to divulge what they're reading right now is our general manager, Kay, who has no compunction whatsoever in owning up to being a comic book geek.
Part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival, 12th April, Informatics Forum. Prof. Richard Sharpe, Prof. Chris Kelnar, Prof. Richard Anderson.
‘Gender..? Man or Woman.' This was the first question of an equal opportunities form I found myself filling in recently. ‘Shouldn’t that say, ‘Sex...? Male or Female?’ my confused neighbour queried.
The gym is a frightening place. It is full of the abnormal shapes, sounds and smells of hulking weight machines crouched against the walls, thumping trainers on treadmills and dozens of sweaty bodies absorbed in working out. But more frighteningly, it is a not place that is amenable to books.
