2010 Book Sale

Our patron for 2010 Sale was Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RA - at the close of this year's sale we raised the fantastic sum of £106,000. Thanks to everyone who came and everyone who helped!

Feel free to download the 2010 sale catalogue of books and pictures inlcuding those from our patron Elizabeth Blackadder and Lynn McGregor RSW - although many items have now sold do please contact us about the availability of anything of interest.

For information on any aspect of the sale please email us at: booksale@standrewsandstgeorges.org.uk

Telephone: 07505 812716 (Book Sale) 07714 186754 (Mary Davidson

0131 225 3847 (Church Office)

Downloads

2010 Book Sale Press release

2010 Christian Aid Sale Catalogue

(all are in PDF format and require Adobe Reader which you can download for free at http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/reader/)

Publicity

On 29th April the Sale was delighted to welcome actor John Shedden and our 2010 patron Dame Elisabeth Blackadder who visited the church and spoke with volunteers during their preparations. Click here to read an article about the sale from the Edinburgh Evening News

There was also a 4-page feature on the sale and the work of Christian Aid and its partners in last Saturday's Scotsman magazine, whilst Andrew Monaghan discussed the sale with one of our helpers on his radio programme "View from Earth" on Forth 2.

At 11am on Tuesday 11 May the Book Sale was delighted to mark the 450th anniversary of the Scottish Reformation. Rt Revd Bill Hewitt, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Cardinal Keith Patrick O’Brien and the Bishop of Edinburgh, Rt Revd Brian Smith, came to the sale as a signed first edition of Harry Reid’s new history of the Reformation was presented to Kathy Galloway, the new head of Christian Aid Scotland.

2009 Booksale

At its close last year's sale had raised the fantastic sum of £111,386. That amount rose to over £113,600 in the weeks following the sale and the cheque was dedicated and handed over to Christian Aid at the 11am service on Sunday 14 June 2009.

Thanks to all those who came, donated, bought and helped!

Much More Than A Booksale

Since inception in 1974, the sale has raised more than £1.8m for Christian Aid. Christian Aid (Scottish charity number  SC 039150) is an agency of churches in the UK and Ireland. It works wherever the need is greatest irrespectiveof religion or race. You can find out more about Christian Aid by following the link on the bottom right of this page.

Alexander McCall Smith, Jamie Byng, Richard Demarco, Ian Rankin, John Bellany and Brian McMaster have been patrons of our Book Sale in recent years. Our patron in 2008 was A.L.Kennedy, whilst our 2009 patron was the writer and essayist Andrew O'Hagan.

How you can help

We can never take success for granted, for it depends entirely on goodwill and generous donations of goods, time and expertise from many quarters. Benefactors and donors send books and goods throughout the year.

Volunteers bring many skills – sorting books, shifting boxes, finding first editions, researching rare volumes, pricing pictures, helping to collect books and goods. And customers return year after year to browse and to buy, even those whose shelves are still groaning with last year’s purchases….

“It is really quite staggering to think that over £1m has been raised, but … in many ways the most significant achievement is the almost tangible sense of generosity of spirit” (a volunteer)