The People's City

Edinburgh, the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is home to the Writer's Museum, where quotes from past writers pave the steps leading up to it. A city whose beauty is matched only by the intrigue of its past, and where Robert Louis Stevenson said, 'there are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh's street-lamps'.

To celebrate the city, its literature, and more importantly, its people, Polygon and the One City Trust have brought together writers – established and emerging – to write about the place they call home in The People's City.

Based around landmarks or significant links to Edinburgh, each story transports the reader to a different decade in the city's recent past. Through these stories, each author reflects on the changes, both generational and physical, in the city in which we live.