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Late in 2019 we asked people to share writings and words that helped, motivated and particularly inspired them in the past. Some very wonderful, very busy people took the time to contribute.
Contributions are signed and contributors were asked to make a short statement of what the work meant to them. Browse through the auction items and see what and who inspired these household names. You'll also find contributions from some well known Scottish authors of their own work kindly donated at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Bidding in the Inspiring Words auction opens on 19 November 2020 and runs until 28 November 2020. If you don't know what to get someone for Christmas, take some inspiration here! Tell friends and colleagues, book club fans and collectors of exotica it's well worth a look.
Words That Carry On will email lucky winners at the end of the auction with payment details for their purchase and its postage, and other relevant details.
If you would prefer to donate directly to Words that Carry On rather than entering the auction you can do that directly here.
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Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party since 2014. She is the fifth person to be first minister and the first woman to hold either position.
Sunset Song (1932) is the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s trilogy A Scots Quair. In 2015 the reviewer, Jim Naughtie, described it as “an unforgettable evocation of a way of life that has slipped away (taking much with it that we’re well rid of).”
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Ian David Hislop is a British journalist, satirist, writer, broadcaster, and editor of the magazine, Private Eye. He has appeared on many radio and television programmes, and on the BBC's Have I Got News for You since it started in 1990.
Scoop (1938) is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents featuring journalist, William Boot, contributor to the Daily Beast. Its author, Evelyn Waugh, a prolific writer and journalist, also wrote Brideshead Revisited.
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Stephen John Fry is an English actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster. He has recently completed Troy, the third in a trilogy retelling Greek myths and legends for the 21st century. He is a generous supporter of causes dealing with mental health issues and is president of the mental health charity, Mind.
Human A to Z is a user-guide to the human race explaining exotic concepts such as 'democracy' and 'sofas'. Matt Haig writes books for both adults and children, some blending domestic reality and fantasy.
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Caroline Patricia Lucas is a British politician, and former member of the European Parliament. She has twice led the Green Party of England and Wales and has been elected as a member of the UK parliament for Brighton Pavilion in 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, increasing her majority each time.
Elegy for a Country’s Seasons is an essay on thinking and finally taking action on the Global Climate Crisis, published in the New York Review of Books in 2014. Its author, Zadie Adeline Smith, is an English novelist, essayist, short-story writer and a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University.
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Shami Chakrabarti: Of Women in The Twenty-first Century
Shami Chakrabarti: Of Women in The Twenty-first Century
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Baroness Sharmishta "Shami" Chakrabarti, CBE, is a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and human rights activist. She was director of Liberty, a UK civil liberties and human rights advocacy organisation, from 2003 to 2016. She was one of the panel members of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.
Of Women (2017) looks at gender injustice to women. It starts from the position that gender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet and suggests that there are huge benefits for us all in addressing it.
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Patrick Harvie is a Scottish politician who has served as co-leader of the Scottish Greens since 2008. He has been Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow since 2003.
Edwin Morgan is Scotland’s first official Makar in modern times. His writing is inquiring, energetic, internationalist, and deeply committed to his home city of Glasgow. This New Selected Poems brings together the broad span of his work.
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George Joshua Richard Monbiot is a British writer and journalist known for his environmental and political activism. “My job is to tell people what they don’t want to hear," he says.
A Gentleman in Moscow is the story of Count Alexander Rostov who in 1922 was deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to house arrest in the grand hotel Metropol in Moscow. Amor Towles is an American writer whose book “Rules of Civility”, 2011, was a New York Times bestseller.
Kindly donated by George Monbiot
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Chris Packham: "Do not gentle into that good night"
Chris Packham: "Do not gentle into that good night"
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Christopher Gary Packham CBE is an English naturalist, nature photographer, television presenter and author, best known for his television work including the CBBC children's nature series, The Really Wild Show, from 1986 to 1995 and the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch.
“Do not gentle into that good night" is the first line of a poem by Dylan Thomas, a celebrated Welsh poet and writer. Thomas became widely popular in his lifetime and remains so to this day.
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The poet, Jenny Lindsay ,is one of Scotland’s best known spoken word performers. She has performed across the UK and further afield at a variety of festivals and events, and is an independent programmer and promoter of poetry, live literature and spoken word.
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Alexander McCall Smith: To the Land of Long Lost Friends
Alexander McCall Smith: To the Land of Long Lost Friends
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Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a respected expert on medical law and bioethics. He is most widely known as a writer and the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. 'To the Land of Long Lost Friends' is the latest novel in the series.
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Ian James Rankin OBE DL FRSE FRSL is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. 'In a House of Lies', published in 2018, is the 22nd book about Rebus.
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Alexander McCall Smith: A Gathering, a Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems.
Alexander McCall Smith: A Gathering, a Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems.
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Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, is a British-Zimbabwean writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a respected expert on medical law and bioethics. He is most widely known as a writer and the creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.
A Gathering: a Personal Anthology of Scottish Poems is not just a simple collection of poems. Each poem, handpicked by Alexander McCall Smith, leads the reader to the next one.
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