The Edinburgh Literary Companion

The Edinburgh Literary Companion - Paperback

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The Edinburgh Literary Companion - Paperback

The Edinburgh Literary Companion - Paperback

by Andrew Lownie
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by Andrew Lownie (Author)

Few cities can boast such a distinguished literary pedigree as Edinburgh.


Burns, Scott, Conan Doyle, Buchan, Dorothy Dunnett and J.K. Rowling have all lived in the city; Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon convalesced there (inspiring Pat Barker's Booker-prize-winning Regeneration trilogy), and Dickens and Thackeray came on triumphant reading tours.


Visitors have ranged from Defoe and George Eliot to Wordsworth, Hans Christian Anderson and the hundreds of renowned authors who now appear at one of the literary world's most important annual events - The Edinburgh International Book Festival.


The Edinburgh Literary Companion traces the city's history from the Old Town, dominated by the Castle and the High Streets with its numerous wynds and closes, to the elegant and spacious New Town and its surrounding villages.

Number of Pages: 216
Dimensions: 0.49 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN
Publication Date: November 12, 2020
ISBN9781839012440
Author Andrew Lownie
PublisherLume Books
GenreHistory, Travel, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages216
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Union, before taking his master's and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College. He has been a bookseller, publisher, journalist writing for The Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator, Guardian and since 1988 has run his own literary agency. He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information. His books include the prize-winning Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess (2015) and the top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves (2019) and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (2021).

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