10 Scotland Street

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. – Sara SheridanAs a writer of fiction, I found myself itching to lift some of these characters from the page into the fertile fields of my own imagination. – Val McDermidAnyone who loves Edinburgh and is fascinated by its private histories will be entranced by this book. – The Scotsman About the book10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two centuries across the globe.