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With an excess of children's books in stock right now, @edicommunitybooks.bsky.social  are giving back to the community by donating children's books to local charities and children's groups. 

If you'd like to receive a donation for your project or group, contact hello@edinburghcommunitybookshop.org

What says Christmas like crime books?

This year to celebrate the festive season we’re having a Christmas crime kilo sale - perfect for the crime readers in your life.

£5 a kilo (equates to about 4 paperbacks, normally £3/4 each!)

4-7 pm in the shop, Thursday the 11th and 18th of December 📚

CHARITY OF THE MONTH: NOVEMBER - THE WELCOMING

The Welcoming is a secular, Edinburgh-based charity that helps refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants—also known as New Scots—settle into the city and flourish.

We’re so happy to be supporting The Welcoming - the work they do is so important.

SOLD OUT! Our Robin Ince event has reached capacity, thank you to everyone who has registered for a ticket!

Keep an eye out for other events we have in the future 📚🍁

On this week! Free to attend but donations to our charity of the month are welcome. 📚

A little bit about our September Charity of the Month - The Super Power Agency 📚

Details of the programme of talks for 2025/2026 for Leith Local History Society.

Each day begins with a fresh shelf of secondhand books, and it’s been an excellent week so far— AND we’re open until 8pm tonight and Saturday for even more perusing!

Hope to see you soon 📚

Tonight! We’re open until 7 pm and we’ve got a spoken word performance at 6 pm. 📚🌞

Some of our book fest picks 📚

Don't miss this very special Bookbug session at the Edinburgh International Book Festival! Share songs, stories, and rhymes in this fun, interactive event in the Children's Tent at EIBF.

Book your free tickets at the link below:

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Watch online: Hallie Rubenhold: Not Just Victims From Mon 11 Aug - Medical fraudsters, fevered manhunts, sudden disappearances - the infamous true story of an Edwardian crime comes to life in Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen...

See you at the Edinburgh Book Festival this Monday at 12:45 when I’ll be in conversation with Val McDermid! Book tickets here👇👇

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

A little bit about our Charity of the Month for August - The Young Women’s Movement 💪📚

A cinema entrance. Text over reads: The Edinburgh Minute - Wednesday 6 August 2025: Cameo cinema bus stop row, Water of Leith dog warning, church demolition plan, Ukrainian refugees' art appeal + library’s 100th birthday Beano party

🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. Today’s headlines: Cameo cinema bus stop row, Water of Leith dog warning, church demolition plan, Ukrainian refugees' art appeal + library’s 100th birthday Beano party

⏰ Edinburgh’s ad-free local news: edinburghminute.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

Collaged poster that reads Kids and their grown ups magical creative Zine Making Workshop Sunday 3rd August 9:30-11:30am at Lighthouse Bookshop, 43-45 West Nicolson Street, EH8 9DB, Pay as you feel on the day but book in advance

Do you like ZINES??? Do you want to try making some? This Sunday we are hosting a Kids & their Grown Ups Zine Marking Workshop, 9:30-11:30 - pay what you want, book here (just so there are enough materials for everyone!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a woman with a headband on her head says " every word of it 's true " ALT: a woman with a headband on her head says " every word of it 's true "

Visitors to #Edinburgh, do remember the ancient custom of spending £1 for every year of your life in a local, independent shop.

Also, the centuries-old tradition of picking up one piece of litter for the number of letters in your full name.

We’re open until 7 pm tonight! Come say hi 📚👋

A nice variety recently added to the recently priced shelves!

Save the Date August 2025 Book Fringe Argonaut Lighthouse Typewronger A dynamic, inclusive, alternative, community-led book festival

ALT Book Fringe 2025
4–29 Aug, Edinburgh

Entirely run & curated by 3 of Scotland’s leading indie bookshops – @argonautbooks.bsky.social, @lighthousebks.bsky.social & @typewronger.bsky.social – ALT Book Fringe is a free, alternative August literary festival
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/book-...

A beer garden with people sitting at benches below trees. Text over reads: Edinburgh Festival Minute: 31 July - 1 August 2025: Today & tomorrow at the festivals: The first reviews are in, final day of previews, comedians fundraise for local toddler + Lego buses at The Pitt

🎭  Good morning festival fans! There are some weary heads out there this morning after last night’s launch parties. And we’ve barely begun. There's a whole month ahead. Here’s today’s Edinburgh Festival Minute with ad-free festival updates: edinburghminute.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

Photograph of the front window of a bookshop, in which hangs an OPEN sign, with the opening hours of Monday to Wednesday 10 to 4, Thursday 10 to 7 and Friday to Sunday 10 to 4.

A photo of the front of the bookshop; along the top is a large white sign with block black letters saying EDINBURGH COMMUNITY BOOKSHOP, along with some drawings of books. Below is the double window frontage of our shop and on the pavement in front, our crates of bargain books that sell for 50p or three for £1!

📚 Hi there, #Edinburgh!
We've finally joined the Blueskyverse. If you don't know us, we're in Leith and we're open 7 days a week 10-4pm - and until 7pm on Thursdays! Come browse (and ideally buy) our books.

Do you have a full UK driving licence and some free time? We need you!

We're looking for volunteer drivers to be the vital link between our FareShare depot and lovely local charity partners - you drive, we'll make sure food gets to those who need it most!

Find out more: buff.ly/VBcMMyw

National Librarian Amina Shah and award-winning author Val McDermid.

📣 Upcoming event!

National Librarian Amina Shah joins celebrated Fife crime writer Val McDermid to discuss their shared love of libraries and Val’s role as a proud champion of the National Library of Scotland in its centenary year.

📌 Pittenweem Arts Festival
📆 Wednesday, 6 August
🎟️ £6

What really is a lit mag? Why do we read them, why do we publish them? What’s a cover letter?Get the answer to all these questions and more from your local magazines! Join us for a panel featuring guava, Palimpsest, and Butch Femme Press, moderated by the fabulous Lauren Galligan.

Light Up Learning

Each month we partner with a different local charity to raise funds - July's is Light Up Learning, who provide mentoring for high school students across Edinburgh and the Lothians. Learn about their services here:
www.lightuplearning.org/

A collage of six photos of labels on books wrapped in brown paper: - A disgraced professor, an impulsive act, and the unraveling of everything. A searing novel about power, shame, and the consequences of our choices. - A glamorous Hollywood murder. A city cloaked in secrets. Dive into the true crime that still haunts America's darkest shadows. - From Ghana to America, two sisters' descendants live out parallel lives shaped by colonialism, slavery, and identity - a sweeping family saga across generations. - Three prisoners of war. One bold escape. And a daring climb into freedom - and the heart of the wild. Based on a true story. - A mother. A child. One locked room. A gripping, tender survival story told through a five-year-old's eyes. - You live in it - but how much do you really know about it? A fascinating, funny deep-dive into the human body.

And speaking of love and reading, fancy a blind date - with a book? They're flying off the shelves (spinning rack) and here's just a few of the stories you can spend some cosy time with. Pop in and take home what will hopefully be your perfect match.
🧡📚 #Edinburgh #Books #BlindDateWithABook

Ooh, dreamy.