The city’s title has inspiredseveral new books, including a new edition of The Edinburgh Literary Companionby Andrew Lownie, Allan Foster’s The Literary Traveller in Edinburgh, andan Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature branded title published in November 2005,A Sense of Place - a collection of winning essays drawn from a Scottish PublishersAssociation competition.Edinburgh has also been gaining profile as a centre for publishing,with a new literary agency opening in August (the Maggie McKernan literary agency).