Thirsty Books Edinburgh

05/06/2024

Today!

Here at the Irish Cultural Centre, we invite you to check out Owen O'Neill: Tom Joad and Me. Book your tickets today!

05/06/2024

With The Irish Cultural Centre – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

04/06/2024

Here at the Irish Cultural Centre, we invite you to check out Owen O'Neill: Tom Joad and Me. Book your tickets today!

01/06/2024

30/05/2024

OWEN O’NEILL revisits some of the true events that inspired his debut novel 'Tom Joad and Me' to be published tomorrow!

And launched The Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith on 5th June at 7.30pm.

OWEN O’NEILL revisits some of the true events that inspired his debut novel. The character, Emmet McCrudden, in my new novel TOM JOAD AND ME was formed from my experiences in London in the 1970s. My first experience of live music was towards the late sixties, 67 68. I was 12 or 13. I would sneak i

25/05/2024

Owen O'Neill's debut novel 'Tom Joad and Me'

PHIL JUPITUS says "A raw and lively tale with a vivid cast of characters all looking for better lives and how far they’ll go to achieve them. In turn tender and hilarious dispatches from the building sites and boozers of pre-Thatcher London and Ireland.

Launching soon at Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith

Come and listen to Owen discuss his first venture into the novel form.

For further information and to book tickets follow the link below:

https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/owen-oneill-tom-joad-and-me-book-launch/

01/04/2024

"It is a ferocious story, and an enduring one." - The New Yorker
Dominic Cooper's newly reissued novel Men at Axlir spans the darkest years of Iceland's history. An uncompromising novel whose writer expertly fuses the natural and human elements in his tale, Men at Axlir is recommended for anyone who appreciates finely written prose with a touch of Nordic Noir.

Shop online at https://www.thirstybooks.com/bookshop

16/11/2020

Another excerpt from our most recent publication "Listen Closely".

At one time weaving fine cloth on a handloom was the main source of income for most of the village. It involved entire families, in almost every house. Buildings were designed with weaving shops (workshops) downstairs and families living above. Many had their weaving shop in their garden. The Barhol

06/11/2020

A new blog post on Thirstybooks.com about our most recent publication 'Listen Closely: an oral history of Kilbarchan 1900-2000"

A short extract from Listen Closely: an oral history of Kilbarchan1900-2000   Geordie Fulton’s forge Horses were not just for use on the farm – the movement of goods to and from the station, and neighbouring towns, the delivery of coal, milk and groceries – all relied on the animal

05/09/2020

Open once again from this weekend, with an exhibition of Archie Chisholm's photographs!

20/08/2020

Sitting down with a very fine new publication from fellow independent Edinburgh publisher

12/04/2020

Another host of Isolation Blogs up on the website in the last week or so, including another Dylan parody from Thirsty poet Eddie Gibbons.

The seventh of April. Day 29. I’m an early self-isolator living in a shielded household just a few miles from where HRH Charlie Corona helicoptered covid into Birkhall, aka Berk Hall, near Ballater. If the virus visits me at least I’ll know it’s By Appointment.   Isolation holds no fears

01/04/2020

And another new blog, from Peter Burnett, featuring urgent advice to all would-be video-callers amidst the current catastrophe.

It is surprising. Even though we are now such experts in photography that we broadcast scores of pictures to scores of places all the time, we still haven't worked out the elemental theoretical rudimentary requisites of taking a picture. One such axiological and bottom-line practice for photography

01/04/2020

A new blog post from Thirsty author Owen O'Neill (from the safety of his own home, you'll be reassured to hear).

Something that writers have been doing for centuries, so it’s no big deal for most of us, only difference is we’ve now been ordered to do it by the Government to save lives and protect the NHS. So for the first time in my life I don’t feel guilty eating chocolate digestives and watching a cat ...

25/03/2020

Some beautiful wildlife photographs from Thirsty author Alan Stewart's last Dupplin walk before going into hibernation... More of Alan's photography is featured in his latest book 'Walking With Wildlife', still available to order online from our online bookshop.

@ Dupplin Estate

26/02/2020

Some of our personal favourite images from Walking With Wildlife, featuring the author's own spectacular and intimate photography from his regular walks on Duplin estate.

26/02/2020

Many thanks to for his review of French Toast by Peter Burnett!

26/02/2020

A superb and wonderful insight into everyday life in the Hebrides over a century ago.

The Photographs of Archie Chisholm by Michael Cope presents a unique and remarkable archive of photographs produced by Archibald Alexander Chisholm while he was Procurator Fiscal in Lochmaddy, North Uist (then part of insular Inverness-shire), from 1881 to 1913. Archie was a keen observer of people and places and chronicler of events throughout the islands and in all nearly three hundred separate images have been attributed to him. The author’s grouping of these images together by theme rather than just place has allowed for a clear narrative of late Victorian/early Edwardian Hebridean life to emerge, one that has not previously been presented in this way.

26/02/2020

Raasay was just named one of the top 20 island destinations in the world. 'Exploring Raasay' features twenty walking routes following tracks through forests, along rocky coastlines and up to summits of Dun Caan, and is the perfect companion on a visit to this very special part of Scotland.

26/02/2020

Murdo Munro works in the forests of an island on the West Coast of Scotland. Although long inured to the coldness of his marriage, it is on the wedding day of his daughter that he finally decides to take action.
One of my personal favourite covers amongst our publications in recent years, Sunrise is a perfect example of Dominic Cooper's writing, in which the bleakness and drama of the landscape and its inhabitants' lives are so closely aligned.

26/02/2020

Our featured publications this month include wildlife expert Alan Stewart's latest book, Walking With Wildlife.
Alan Stewart has a long association with the 13,000 acre Dupplin Estate in Perthshire. Over the course of a year, he revisits and walks over the whole estate to observe and record what changes there have been in farming practice, the environment and wildlife in the intervening years since his youth.
His written record is the culmination of a lifetime’s knowledge of wildlife, and an up-to-the-minute, sharply and lovingly told account of the state of the natural environment in Perthshire, alongside which are featured the author's own intimate photography of the many birds and animals encountered on his walks.

26/02/2020

Some more canine company at one of our very important meetings held on Forrest Road last week...

26/02/2020

An admittedly non-traditional approach to preparing Peter Burnett's latest offering, French Toast is nonetheless worth savouring.

A family farce and cinematic adventure starring a giant of the silver screen, French Toast tells the story of the meeting of critic Victor Eaves and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard at Edinburgh Film Festival 2020, in a novel blending mad vulgarity with slingshot satire.

26/02/2020

An array of other Thirsty titles available by Peter Burnett, his 21st century Stevensonian adventure novel : An Occupy Romance, and its sequel Scotland or No (whose main character happens to share his name with Thirsty author Alan Stewart).

03/12/2019

An admittedly non-traditional approach to preparing Peter Burnett's latest offering, French Toast is nonetheless worth savouring.

A family farce and cinematic adventure starring a giant of the silver screen, French Toast tells the story of the meeting of critic Victor Eaves and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard at Edinburgh Film Festival 2020, in a novel blending mad vulgarity with slingshot satire.

28/11/2019

New website blog on an upcoming Edinburgh event with Alan Stewart, author of Walking With Wildlife.

Wildlife crime expert and author, Alan Stewart has a long association with the Dupplin Estate in Perthshire – as a schoolboy, as a farm worker and as a rabbit controller. To write Walking with Wildlife: a year on a Scottish estate, he revisited and walked over the whole estate over the course of a

14/11/2019

"It is a ferocious story, and an enduring one." - The New Yorker

Dominic Cooper's newly reissued novel Men at Axlir spans the darkest years of Iceland's history. An uncompromising novel whose writer expertly fuses the natural and human elements in his tale, Men at Axlir is recommended for anyone who appreciates finely written prose with a touch of Nordic Noir.

Shop online at https://www.thirstybooks.com/bookshop

06/11/2019

Heidi lending us her editorial insight over the weekend