The Edinburgh Bookshop is up for another prize - but owner Marie Moser wonders if it all matters. Oscars, BAFTAS, Nobel’s –nowadays every walk of life has its’ prizes and the Book Industry has more than most. We have: The Booker Prize- The Costa Prize The Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction The Welcome Prize The James Tait Black prizes The Saltire Prize The Samuel … [Read more...]
Q&A with Angus Farquhar of NVA
With the Festival of Architecture about to kick off with Hinterland, Rattle spoke to the creative director of NVA Angus Farquhar about the performance in St. Peter's seminary and his thoughts on creative confidence in Scotland. Angus, NVA are not only about to do a show in St. Peter's, but also make the building a permanent base for creativity - what's the idea? It has … [Read more...]
Celts – what we know now
After four-months at the British Museum, the Celts exhibition has come to Edinburgh revised and with additional exhibits. Rattle asked the curators Dr Fraser Hunter and Dr Martin Goldberg to reflect on what we know about the Celtic people. The idea of Celts is a complicated one. It means different things to different people, and has meant different things at different times … [Read more...]
Brexit – a nightmare for wine drinkers
Starting a new column for Rattle, the good folk at Great Grog independent wine dealers ponder what an EU exit would mean for wine prices. If we come out of Europe, how will this affect the way we trade with the Europeans, and most importantly, how will this affect the wine we drink? Every bottle of European Union wine sold here has £2 UK duty on it. This is how the … [Read more...]
World Press Photo Awards
The jury of the 59th annual World Press Photo Contest has selected an image by Australian photographer Warren Richardson as the World Press Photo of the Year 2015. The World Press Photo of the Year honours the photographer whose visual creativity and skills made a picture that captures or represents an event or issue of great journalistic importance in the last … [Read more...]
