Scotland Magazine section Scottish Expeditions

Family day out in a city of literature

Edinburgh is awash with literary references. Kate Patrick planned a family day out

On the day Harry Potter hysteria hit Edinburgh, I took my 13-year-old son Jamie to browse among the city’s antiquarian bookshops, searching for thumbed, mildewed editions of John Buchan’s 39 Steps, Robert Louis Stephenson’s Kidnapped and Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, all of which appe...

By Kate Patrick from Issue 24 published on 05/01/2006