Wendy Kirk

Story Cafe round up: Peak beyond Peak

Peak Beyond Peak: the unpublished Scottish Journeys of Isobel Wylie Hutchison compiled and transcribed by Hazel Buchan Cameron On 11th May, we welcomed Hazel Buchan Cameron to talk about her […]

Four books lie on a black background: Hex by Jenni Fagan, The lost spells by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris, A spell in the wild by Alice Tarbuck and We are all witches by Mairi Kidd

Story Cafe round up: Scotland’s witches

Pauline shares some of the highlights from our April and May Story Cafes… Wendy introduced Anabel, who was leading this Story Cafe telling of Scotland’s persecution of witches, the attempt […]

Image shows some china tea cups and saucers, with Trishna Singh's memoir, A silent voices speaks, beside them. The book has a blue cover and shows a yellow window, with a woman looking out of it.

Story Cafe: A silent voices speak by Trishna Singh OBE

Pauline reflects on a wonderful, illuminating Story Cafe with Trishna Singh… Trishna Singh OBE is a first generation Scottish Bhat Sikh born in Glasgow in1953.  She moved to Edinburgh on […]

Story Cafe round up: women journalists

From anarchism in Spain, to photo-journalism in Yemen, Pauline gives us a fantastic round up of what we’ve been reading and chatting about… In this fascinating session (“brilliant” and “my […]

Drawn Together: volume 1: Rewilding

Zohra reviews Rewilding… Rewilding is a dynamic practice in Drawn Together Volume 1: Rewilding. The collection of visual stories by ‘international feminist collective’ Drawn Together invites the reader to morph […]

Story Cafe round-up!

Pauline gives us a flavour of what we’ve been reading and chatting about so far this year, and chats to Aishwarya about Story Cafe… Aishwarya Balasubramanian has been on a […]

30 years of books

In November, Elaine, who works so hard to source hot-off-the-press books for our shelves, shared her experience of volunteering at the Library. Now she wants to spotlight some of the […]

Story Café: music, laughter and the art of storytelling

As part of our 30th anniversary, we’re looking back to move forward. I’ve been casting my mind back to some of my own highlights from Story Café (too many to […]

Travelling the world at Story Cafe

Aaah Story Café…from the insightful, generous chat, to the big brown teapot, it’s a magical thing to be part of. With our 30th anniversary celebrations well under way, I’ll be […]

From crime fiction to cold snaps: Story Cafe magic this winter

Pauline gives us another fantastic snapshot of what we’ve been reading and chatting about at Story Cafe… Work in Progress – Dr Donna Moore We were pleased to hear, when […]