Books and DVD
Burke & Hare by Owen Dudley Edwards
At Christmastide, 1827, in a boarding house in Edinburgh's West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord £4 rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend William Burke fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr Robert Knox, an ambitious anatomist. They make a profit of £3.10s.
After this encouraging outcome, Burke and Hare decide to suffocate another sickly tenant. So begins the criminal career of the most notorious double act in the history of serial murder.
Princess Pumpalot: The Super-Farting Bean Mystery
Robin Mitchell's 2012 kids' smash Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess gets a hotly-anticipated follow-up, with Her Royal (and Farty) Highness off on a new adventure in the kingdom of Wiffyville.
Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess
What's Under The Kilt?
Adam Lyal's Witchery Tales
What Time Does Edinburgh's One O'clock Gun Fire?
What Time Does Edinburgh's One O'Clock Gun Fire? is a charming book mixing the rich history of the One O'Clock Gun with a bountiful selection of amusing Castle anecdotes. The firing of the One O'Clock Gun has been a recognised custom in Edinburgh since 1861, startling millions of visitors to Scotland's capital. The time gun is fired daily from the Mills Mount Battery of Edinburgh Castle at 1300 hours precisely, except on Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday.
