Lockdown Learning in Scotland

 The BBC Bitesize website now includes new content to help with learning during Lockdown. If you are looking for more inspiration for the #invyreads challenge you should check out the Authors Live section. In partnership with the Scottish Book Trust there are some 36 live webcasts from famous authors inclusing: Liz Pichon, Cressida Cowell, David Almond, Patrick Ness and Marcus Sedgewick to name but a few. There are more too on the Scottish Book Trust's website.

St Andrew's Day

To celebrate St Andrew's Day (30th November) there is a display of books by Scottish authors in the Library.



The Scottish Book Trust have just announced the result of their poll to find Scotland's favourite book from the last fifty years. In first place was 'Trainspotting' by Irvine Welsh; second place went to 'Lanark' by Alasdair Gray and in third place is Ian Rankin's 'Black and blue'.