BOOKS AT THE FESTIVAL
For books we're mainly talking about the Books Festival, the rather brilliant two week long literary festival that takes over Charlotte Square Gardens.
BOOKS - LATEST FEATURES
Irvine Welsh
/ Amy Dowd chats to Irvine Welsh about his...
books : TW : You’re speaking and reading from your new book ‘Crime’ next Thursday; are you looking...2008-08-16»
3 to see: Book Festival tips
/ The ThreeWeeks’ Book Correspondents...
books : Gemma Scott's tips... Jacqueline Wilson Jacqueline Wilson is one of the most prolific...2008-08-16»
Journey To The East
/ Sonya Hallett talks to Book Director...
books : So it’s August, it’s 2008 and it’s the Olympics in Beijing. Back here in rainy Edinburgh,...2008-08-16»
13 To See: Books
/ 2008 Festival Preview
books : Every year, I say something along the lines of '"this is my favourite festival, get ye to...2008-08-02»
BOOKS - LATEST REVIEWS
- Sun Shuyun - Focus on China
/Edinburgh International Book Festival
With China in the limelight following the Olympics, and the Tibet riots fresh in people’s minds, Sun Shuyun’s incredible...2008-09-09» - Andrey Kurkov - Writers Of The World
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From first impressions, Andrey Kurkov seems too much the unexpectedly cheerful and friendly giant to be the mastermind...2008-09-09» - Shane Koyczan - The Skinny Event
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Magnificent, and magnificently bearded, Canadian performance poet Shane Koyczan lassoed his audience with a skilfully...2008-09-02» - Misha Glenny - Nations Unlimited
/Edinburgh International Book Festival
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer would probably be an apt personal motto for eminent journalist...2008-09-02» - Mark Watson
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While Mark Watson still struggles to take himself seriously as a proper author, and can't resist slipping into stand-up...2008-09-02» - George Steiner - Literature and Culture
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George Steiner doesn’t need Dr Kawashima's Brain Trainer since every morning he does his own translation and memory...2008-09-02» - Mark Thomas
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You'd better pray that you don't get on the wrong side of Mark Thomas. A comedian turned campaigner, all the sarcastic,...2008-09-02» - Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde's brain must be a very strange space to inhabit. Just listen to him try to explain what his books are...2008-09-02» - Henry Hitchings
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Though this was advertised as Susie Dent and Henry Hitchings, a problem at Birmingham airport meant that one of our...2008-09-02» - Xiaolu Guo
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Brilliantly talented novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo treated a rapt audience to a reading of an unpublished work,...2008-08-23» - Keith Laidler & Kieron O'Hara Human Rights
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How much should we care about an increased threat to our privacy? While Keith Laidler argued we are in danger of being...2008-08-23» - Lisa Appignanesi
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Lisa Appignanesi's new book 'Mad, Bad and Sad' is a cultural history of how women have been treated by "mind doctors"...2008-08-23» - Hanif Kureishi: Meet the Author
/Edinburgh International Book Festival
Hanif Kureishi's refusal to shy away from the taboo subject of madness is commendable. Although he argued that reading...2008-08-23» - The Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition Poetry Prize
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The point of a poetry competition is perhaps to give poets a reason to write and to celebrate new poetry. Unfortunately,...2008-08-23» - Stefan Collini & Peter Conrad
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Two critics talk about literary criticism, what its role is and whether it's relevant today. Now forgive my cynicism...2008-08-21» - Chuck Palahniuk
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What would you least expect to happen at a literary event? The distribution of blow-up sex toys among the audience would...2008-08-21» - Ben Goldacre & David McFarland
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You really could not chose two more different speakers than Ben Goldacre and David McFarland. It was perhaps just as...2008-08-21» - Bookslam - Fiction, Poetry and Music
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A refreshing change, Bookslam is stand-up literature; three writers and a musician glued together by Alan Bissett who...2008-08-21»
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