“Ten days from now,” observes The Scotsman’s Tim Cornwell, Albanian author Ismail Kadare, the winner of the first-ever Booker International Prize for Literature and “hailed as a literary genius, is to come to Edinburgh to be awarded a £60,000 prize for a lifetime of writing.” There’s just one problem: although famous as a literary city, none of Edinburgh’s bookstores seem to have any of Kadare’s books in stock. A spokesperson for the Booker says, “Part of the goal has been to bring writers like Kadare back into profile.” Meanwhile, says Cornwell’s report on it all, “publishers yesterday were in a frantic race to get any of his works into the city’s bookshops after a casual inquiry by The Scotsman revealed that none were on sale.”