One Book - but more to come?

YESTERDAY saw the launch of "One Book - One Edinburgh", a campaign to popularise the reading habit and to publicise the capital's title of UNESCO City of Literature. Some 35,000 free copies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped will go to every school and library in Edinburgh until stocks run out.

They will include 7,500 copies of a new version of Kidnapped, told as a graphic novel. The latter might seem at odds with the injunction to read more, but it also shows a welcome determination to spread the word about great Scottish literature.

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