I’ll be talking about 10 Scotland Street at Typewronger Books, 4 Haddington Place, on Monday 15th January at 7pm. It will be cosy, cheery and free and you will be very welcome.

Domestic history set in stone Leslie Hills moved to a dilapidated ground-floor flat at 10 Scotland St in 1974. Years later, after she’d paid off the mortgage, a solicitor passed her the deeds – documents she used painstakingly to frame the history of a home. Not just of her home, but that of successive families […]

… a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable book, a work of prodigious research and also an engaging partial autobiography as well as the story of number 10, and indeed the whole street. Scotland Street flourishes again today. Anyone who loves Edinburgh and is fascinated by its private histories will be entranced by this book. It will […]