Serendipitous Edinburgh.

Jenni Calder's book about Edinburgh defies categorization. Regarding Walter Scott, her discussion of the Old Tolbooth, as described in I The Heart of Midlothian i , and regarded at the time of the Porteous Riots as the "heart" of Edinburgh, is particularly illuminating. Calder has been a bridge-builder herself, not least when working for many years as education officer and holding other managerial posts at the National Museum of Scotland, and her book certainly pays much attention to Edinburgh as the city of Scott and Stevenson. [Extracted from the article]