{"product_id":"a-work-of-beauty-alexander-mccall-smiths-edinburgh","title":"A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh","description":"\u003cp\u003e''I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an unregarded doorway with the names, in brass, of those who lived there sixty years ago, the bell-pulls sometimes still in place, as if one might summon long-departed residents from their slumbers.''Edinburgh is a city of stories - a place that has witnessed everything from great historical upheavals, to the individual lives of a remarkable cast of characters. Every spire, cobblestone, bridge, close and avenue has a tale to tell.In this sumptuous new book, Alexander McCall Smith curates his own, distinctive story of Edinburgh - combining his affectionate, incisive wit with a wealth of stunning imagery drawn from Scotland''s national collection of architecture and archaeology. Through a series of photographs, maps, drawings and paintings - many never before published - he takes the reader on a unique tour. Just like the city''s architecture, the book can move in an instant from sweeping views to secret, hidden vignettes. This is a story of famous landmarks and lost buildings; the people who made them; the people who lived in them.A Work of Beauty is an intimate portrait of a city by one of Scotland''s greatest storytellers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53256991539466,"sku":"9781902419909","price":8.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/CFF256B8-D880-48E3-A884-277F02A3E5C4.jpg?v=1782398859","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/a-work-of-beauty-alexander-mccall-smiths-edinburgh","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}