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The Great Book Fringe Logo Competition!

June 18, 2018

Do YOU want to be involved in creating the look of this year’s Book Fringe? Want to put those design skills to use in highlighting the presence of Edinburgh’s  alternative literary festival? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you! The Book Fringe is a bookshop-run, alternative festival of ideas… Read more

Winners of the Palestine Book Awards Webinar Series

May 4, 2018

Lighthouse Bookshop is proud to partner with the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Society as they present a series of webinars by the winners of the 2017 Palestine Book Awards. The authors have agreed to speak in a series of webinars to audiences in Scotland and beyond about aspects of Palestine which… Read more

Feminist Book Fortnight – watch this space!

April 15, 2018

  by Jim Taylor & Mairi Oliver Back in the summer of 1984, the inaugural International Feminist Book Fair was held in Covent Garden, London. Supported by a growing feminist reading audience, the fair was followed by a ten day-long celebration of feminist ideas and women’s writing held in bookshops… Read more

In solidarity with the UCU strikers: Their fight is your fight

March 3, 2018

by Jim Taylor If one were to follow only certain outlets of the mainstream media, one would be led to believe that the university staff currently striking over proposed reforms to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) are petulantly overreacting to a perfectly sensible restructuring of their pension scheme. The USS… Read more

Flavour Of the Month

Flavour of the Month

Upcoming Events

Thomas Muir Memorial Lecture : Gerda Stevenson

Praise the Lorde! – An Audre Lorde Discussion Group

Where are our working class narratives?

Women in Translation Book Club: Die, My Love

Women in Translation & Charco Press : Meet the Publisher

Disability writes: On writing publishing, access and disability

Disability Writes : On Writing, Publishing & Disability