People''s City - One City Trust

To celebrate Edinburgh, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers - established and emerging - to write about the place they call home. Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh each story transports the reader to a different decade in the city's recent past.

About the author

Nadine Aisha Jassat is the author of poetry collection Let Me Tell You This (404 Ink) and was named in Jackie Kay’s International Literature Showcase Selection of 10 Compelling ‘BAME’ writers working in the UK.
Anne Hamilton is the author of the travel memoir, A Blonde Bengali Wife. She lives in Edinburgh with her young son.
Alexander McCall Smith is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, which has sold over twenty-five million copies. Since then he has devoted his time to the writing of fiction and has seen his various series of books translated into over forty-six languages and become bestsellers throughout the world. These include the 44 Scotland Street novels, first published as a serial novel in the Scotsman, the Isabel Dalhousie novels, the Von Igelfeld series and the Corduroy Mansions novels.

Summary

To celebrate Edinburgh, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers – established and emerging – to write about the place they call home. Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh each story transports the reader to a different decade in the city’s recent past.

Product details

• Authors: Nadine Aisha Jassat, Nadine Hamilton Aisha Jassat, Anne Hamilton, Hamilton Anne, Alexander McCall Smith, McCall Smith Alexander, Ian Rankin, Sara Sheridan, Sheridan Sara, Irvine Welsh
• Assisted by: Welsh Irvine (Introduction)
• Publisher: BIRLINN LIMITED
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781846976018
• ISBN: 978-1-84697-601-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Fiction: literary and general non-genre