EDINBURGH: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY (HB)

A portrait of one of the world’s great cities, from ‘Edinburgh, the sink of abomination’ to the Athens of the North, the Festival City, the Aids Capital of Europe and a tourist Mecca. Beyond the great and good, the famous and infamous, there is testimony from ordinary folk who may have been forgotten by history but who made their own contribution to Edinburgh’s ever-developing tapestry. Here are stories of body-snatching and murder, drunkenness and drug-taking, sex and shopping, as well rants against inclement weather and the city council.