Books
Those of you tempted to recreate the delicious taste of Henderson's at home will be interested to know that two Henderson's Recipe Books are available - Henderson's Wholefood Cookbook and The Henderson's Book of Salads. These make wonderful gifts - even to yourself! - and sell for £4.95 each or £8.90 for the two.
However Henderson's commitment to the life literary doesn't end there. The exhibition 'Unspoken Lines' by Joyce Gunn Cairns, currently on show in the Janet and Mac Gallery in Henderson's restaurant, features many of Scotland's leading poets and novelists, reflecting Joyce's deep love of literature, and many of the sitters' works are available in the restaurant. These include the poets Stewart Conn, Edwin Morgan, Bashabi Fraser and Tessa Ransford; the works of Gerard W. Hughes have been an important part of Joyce's spiritual quest; while we also stock back issues of 'Chapman', Scotland's quality literary magazine, as well as poetry published under the Chapman imprint. Henderson's also stock the works of John Cairney, who performed here during the 2009 Edinburgh Festival - and who is to present a Christmas show in the Wine Bar later this year - and a number of titles of local interest. As a family friendly restaurant, Henderson's also sell a range of interesting and unusual children's books.
Henderson's and The Henderson Gallery are also proud to have presented evening talks, lectures, poetry readings and book launches in association with several Scottish publishers, and have many more planned for the months to come. So why not swing by the restaurant, grab yourself some coffee and a snack, and settle back with a good read: all part of the Henderson's experience!
Henderson's Cookbooks
Pocket-sized but packed with recipes these two books make perfect presents for anyone interested in delicious, healthy food.
Preview some sample pages from the Wholefood Cookbook here, or the Salad book here
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Henderson's | Henderson's Wholefood Cookbook | £4.95 |
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Henderson's | Henderson's Book of Salads | £4.95 |
Or buy both for £9.90
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Stewart Conn
Born in Ayrshire in 1936, Stewart Conn has lived in Edinburgh since 1977, and in 2002 was appointed the capital's first Makar, or poet laureate. His 'Stolen Light: Selected Poems' appeared in 1999; while 'Ghosts at Cockcrow' in 2005 contains many of the works he wrote during his three years as Edinburgh Makar.
100 Favourite Scottish Poems
Edited by the poet and first Edinburgh Makar Stewart Conn and published in association with the Scottish Poetry Library, this is a wonderful collection of favourites old and new.
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Stewart Conn | 100 Favourite Scottish Poems | £7.99 |
100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems
Stewart Conn's selection ranges from traditional Border Ballads to Burns, Byron and Hogg, to MacCaig, McDiarmid and Edwin Morgan. Poems of yearning, of first love, of love eternal and love lost strike sparks off each other across the pages of this inspiring anthology.
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Stewart Conn | 100 Favourite Scottish Love Poems | £7.99 |
Chapman
Chapman, Scotland's quality literary magazine, has for forty years been essential reading for anyone concerned with Scottish culture, theatre, politics, language or the arts.
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Chapman | 102/3 Chapman Centenary Part 2 | £9.95 |
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Chapman | 105 On With the Future! | £5.50 |
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Chapman | 106 Testaments Unrequited | £5.50 |
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Chapman | 107 Unacknowledged Legislators | £5.50 |
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Chapman | 108 Crime Scenes Revisited | £5.50 |
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Chapman | 109 New Issue | £5.50 |
Robert Burns
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
This is, some would argue, the most important book ever to have been published in this country. The first edition of Burns, also known as the Kilmarnock Edition, it contains much of his finest work including The Twa Dogs, Address to the Deil, To a Mouse and The Cotter's Saturday Night.
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Robert Burns | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | £15.00 |
John Cairney
Actor, writer and raconteur John Cairney actually entered Glasgow School of Art in 1947 to study lithography. However theatre won out and in a career spanning five decades John has played all the classic roles. In 1965 John created a one-man show about Robert Burns and a legend was born: to an entire generation he was the incarnation of the world's favourite poet. John has written and lectured widely on Burns, as well as the other Scottish cultural icons Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Louis Stevenson. He has also written a fascinating book on his native city.
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John Cairney | Glasgow By The Way, But | £7.99 |
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John Cairney | The Luath Burns Companion | £7.99 |
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John Cairney | The Quest For Charles Rennie Mackintosh | £16.99 HB; £8.99 PB |
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John Cairney | The Quest For Robert Louis Stevenson | £16.99 |
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John Cairney | The Robert Burns Story (CD) | £14.50 |
Stewart Conn
Born in Ayrshire in 1936, Stewart Conn has lived in Edinburgh since 1977, and in 2002 was appointed the capital's first Makar, or poet laureate. His 'Stolen Light: Selected Poems' appeared in 1999; while 'Ghosts at Cockcrow' in 2005 contains many of the works he wrote during his three years as Edinburgh Makar.
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Stewart Conn | Ghosts at Cockcrow | £8.95 |
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Stewart Conn | Stolen Light | £9.95 |
Christine De Luca
Christine De Luca is one of the leading contemporary writers in Shaetlan, or Shetlandic, a mixture of Old Scots and Norn. An award-winning poet, Christine has also written children's books in Shaetlan in an effort to stem the language's decline. Christine also helped found Hansel Co-operative Press which fosters the arts in Orkney and Shetland.
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Christine De Luca | Mondes Paralleles | £9.00 |
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Christine De Luca | Parallel Worlds | £8.99 |
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Christine De Luca | Plain Song | £10.00 |
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Christine De Luca | Voes and Sounds | £6.00 |
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Christine De Luca | Wast Wi Da Valkyries | £8.00 |
Bashabi Fraser
Bashabi Fraser is a writer and academic whose work is strongly focused on themes of post-colonialism and the creative cultural collision implied by the title of her collection 'Tartan and Turban', and exemplified by the correspondence, which she has edited, between Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore. Bashabi has also written plays and stories for children.
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Bashabi Fraser | A Meeting of Two Minds: The Geddes Tagore Letters | £11.00 |
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Bashabi Fraser | Tartan and Turban | £8.99 |
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Bashabi Fraser | With Best Wishes From Edinburgh | £5.00 |
Magi Gibson
Originally from Kilsyth, Magi Gibson has lived and worked for most of her adult life near Stirling, and in March 2009 was appointed as the first Makar for that city in almost 500 years. Her collection 'Wild Women of a Certain Age' has been described as 'reflective, compassionate and carefully-wrought'.
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Magi Gibson | Wild Women of a Certain Age | £7.95 |
Valerie Gillies
Born in Canada but raised in South Lanarkshire, Valerie Gillies attended the Hindu University of Mysore before completing her studies in Edinburgh. A freelance writer since 1971, she became the second person to hold the post of Edinburgh Makar. 'The Spring Teller' which appeared in 2008 is Valerie's response to journeys she made to the springs and wells of Scotland.
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Valerie Gillies | The Spring Teller | £12.99 |
George Gunn
George Gunn was born on the north coast of Caithness and the wild landscapes of the far north of Scotland provide much of the inspiration for his 2005 collection 'Winter Barley'. George is also a prolific playwright and a founder of Grey Coast Theatre Company.
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George Gunn | Winter Barley | £7.95 |
Gerard W. Hughes
Author and spiritual adviser Father Gerard W. Hughes has written at length of his own spiritual quest and the important role played in it by meditation and pilgrimage. In 1975 he walked 1100 miles from Weybridge to Rome and in 1987, aged 63, he walked most of the way from Ayrshire to Jerusalem. Since 1983 Father Hughes has offered training courses and retreats to laypeople to help them cope with the difficulties of modern life.
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Gerard W. Hughes | God in All Things | £8.99 |
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Gerard W. Hughes | God of Surprises | £9.95 |
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Gerard W. Hughes | God, Where Are You? | £10.95 |
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Gerard W. Hughes | In Search of a Way | £10.95 |
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Gerard W. Hughes | Oh God, Why? | £8.99 |
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Gerard W. Hughes | Walk to Jerusalem | £11.95 |
Ian McDonough
Ian McDonough's work has been featured in publications as diverse as the Scotsman, New Writing Scotland and Physics News. Originally from Brora, Ian now lives in Edinburgh. His first full-length poetry collection 'The Clan MacHine' was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year Award in 2004.
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Ian McDonough | Clan MacHine | £6.95 |
Edwin Morgan
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's greatest living poet. Appointed the first Scots Makar in 2004, his stylistic versatility has embraced everything from traditional forms to concrete poetry, and he is also known for his collaborations with musicians, including saxophonist Tommy Smith and indie rockers Idlewild. 'Beyond the Sun' is his personal poetic response to Scotland's favourite paintings, as voted for by the readers of the Herald newspaper.
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Edwin Morgan | Beyond the Sun | £9.99 |
Janet Paisley
Since publishing her first book in 1979, the poet and playwright Janet Paisley has also written for television, radio and the big screen. She has also served on the Working Party for a Scottish National Theatre and the Cross Party Parliamentary Group for the Scots Language. Back in October a Ukrainian translation of her collection 'Alien Crop' was launched at The Henderson Gallery.
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Edwin Morgan | Beyond the Sun | £9.99 |
George H. Park
Football historian George Park never saw St Bernard's FC play, but the club, which won the Scottish Cup in 1895 and graced the Scottish League from 1893 to 1942, would have been his local team when growing up in Stockbridge. This gave him a lifelong interest in the history of St Bernard's and this fascinating book is the result.
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George H. Park | St Bernard's Football Club | £5.99 |
Tessa Ransford
Born in India of Scottish antecedents, Tessa Ransford has been the editor of Lines Review, the founder of the School of Poets workshop, and most famously the driving force behind the Scottish Poetry Library. 'Not Just Moonshine' features a selection of Tessa's work over the last four decades, while 'The Nightingale Questions' contains translations of German poets Tessa met on a trip to Saxony with Joyce Gunn Cairns in 2002.
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Tessa Ransford | Not Just Moonshine | £12.99 |
Lesley Riddoch
Writer, broadcaster and founder of the famous feminist magazine 'Harpies and Quines', Lesley Riddoch has also been deeply concerned with the threat to Scotland's island communities. Instrumental in putting together the local buyout of Eigg, she has also been involved in similar efforts on the Isle of Rum, and her 'thoughtful, timely and wonderfully contentious' book 'Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides' was published in 2007.
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Lesley Riddoch | Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides | £10.00 |
Joyce Gunn Cairns
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Joyce Gunn Cairns | Unspoken Lines | £40.00 |
For many years Joyce Gunn Cairns has expressed her deep love of literature through her portrait drawings of contemporary writers. In this show Joyce has widened her focus to include significant figures from many other fields of Scottish life. The result is an invaluable "snapshot" of the cultural state of the nation at the end of the first decade of the new century.
Includes comprehensive biographies of each of the sitters, a foreword by Julie Lawson, Chief Curator at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, as well as an in depth conversation between Julie Lawson and the artist. Also included are chapters about award winning silversmith Mark Andrew Powell and BAFTA winning filmmaker Johanna Wagner - both of whom contributed to the exhibition.
Softcover, full colour, 180 pages.
Published by The Henderson Gallery 2009, more details here.
Other Books
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Andrew Farquharson and Neil Mackay | Seventy Years Young | £8.00 |
'Seventy Years Young' is a fascinating and lavishly illustrated introduction to the history and work of the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School since its foundation in May, 1939.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Christine De Luca
Christine De Luca is one of the leading contemporary writers in Shaetlan, or Shetlandic, a mixture of Old Scots and Norn. An award-winning poet, Christine has also written children's books in Shaetlan in an effort to stem the language's decline. Christine also helped found Hansel Co-operative Press which fosters the arts in Orkney and Shetland.
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Christine De Luca | Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic | £5.00 |
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Christine De Luca | Smootie Comes Ta Lerrick | £5.00 |
Bashabi Fraser
Bashabi Fraser is a writer and academic whose work is strongly focused on themes of post-colonialism and the creative cultural collision implied by the title of her collection 'Tartan and Turban', and exemplified by the correspondence, which she has edited, between Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore. Bashabi has also written plays and stories for children.
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Bashabi Fraser | Just One Diwali Night | £3.50 |
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Bashabi Fraser | Topsy Turvy | £3.50 |
Simon Puttock
Children's author Simon Puttock was born in New Zealand, eventually moving to Edinburgh in 2004. Since living in Scotland he has won the Highland Book Award in 2006 and the Royal Mail Scottish Children's Book Award in the same year, being nominated for the latter award again in 2008.
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Simon Puttock | Butterfly Girl | £10.99 HB;£5.99 PB |
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Simon Puttock | Goat and Donkey and the Noise Downstairs | £10.99 HB;£6.99 PB |
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Simon Puttock | Miss Fox | £10.99 HB;£6.99 PB |
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Simon Puttock | Mr Mac's Bad Rabbits | £11.99 |
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Simon Puttock | The Little Old Lady Who Cried Wolf | £10.99 HB;£5.99 PB |
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Simon Puttock | Wild West Winnie | £9.99 HB;£4.99 PB |
