10 Scotland Street: With a foreword from Val McDermid

This is a triumph. A love letter to the ghosts of Edinburgh. I feel its hand upon my shoulder. Sara Sheridan

As 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 McDermid

Anyone who loves Edinburgh and is fascinated by its private histories will be entranced by this book. The Scotsman

About the book

10 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.