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

  • 3 to see: Journalists / ThreeWeeks recommends three journalists...
    books : #1 Gavin Esler (pictured): If you’re anything like me (and I bet some of you are, no...2009-08-06»
  • 3 to see: Authors / ThreeWeeks recommends three authors from...
    books : #1 Caroline Moorhead (pictured): Caroline Moorhead is the author of a biography of Lucie...2009-08-05»

BOOKS - LATEST REVIEWS

  • Andrey Kurkov /Writers Of The World
    At the end of this session the compère exclaimed that “this has been one of the most enjoyable hours I’ve spent at the...2009-09-16»
  • Charley Boorman /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ The Baillie Gifford Event
    It's that bloke off the telly who likes to whizz off to exotic locations on his motorbike. There's definitely something...2009-09-16»
  • James Kelman /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ The Saltire Society Event
    James Kelman is perhaps one of those precise, tricky writers, whose work is not best suited to public recitals,...2009-09-16»
  • Joan Bakewell /Edinburgh International Book Festival/Fine Fiction
    One of the running themes of this year’s book festival has been the lack of political activism in Britain. Despite youth...2009-09-16»
  • Jonathan Bate /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Lived Lives
    The subject of Shakespeare has been so thoroughly explored over the years that you sometimes wonder why scholars still...2009-09-16»
  • Lindsey Davis /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Crime Fiction
    Lindsey Davis' advice to aspiring authors: get an unfulfilling job, stick at it for about ten years accumulating life...2009-09-16»
  • Philip Carr-Gomm & Owen Davies /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Literature And Culture.
    Merlin, Gandalf, Dumbledore: popular literature is littered with white-bearded men waving magic wands and incanting...2009-09-16»
  • Tristram Stuart /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Food And Society
    Tristram Stuart sure hates waste. He's just dedicated a whole book to the subject, but, to drive the point home, he...2009-09-16»
  • William Boyd /The Times & Sunday Times Scotland Event
    I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t read any of William Boyd’s work, and I certainly won’t having been to this event. I...2009-09-16»
  • Antony Sher /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Meet The Author
    Unlike so many authors, whose stumbling delivery indicates why they are best suited to written, rather than spoken,...2009-09-15»
  • Frank Skinner /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ The List Event
    “If I may speak intellectually about granny porn…” Skinner quips, in an event where the TV personality plays the...2009-09-15»
  • Irma Kurtz /Edinburgh International Book Festival/Age and Society
    There was a spine-tingling moment in Irma Kurtz’s talk when everything she said fell into place. Just before she told...2009-09-15»
  • John Burnside & Klas Östergren /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Meeting Sweden
    Poisoned landscapes and apocalyptic visions of the future, the fiction of John Burnside and Klas Östergren is hard-hitti...2009-09-15»
  • Nicholson Baker /Edinburgh International Book Festival/Meet The Audience
    This was an event for the literary snobs: I heard them all complaining when they came in about how embarrassing the...2009-09-15»
  • Paddy Ashdown /Edinburgh International Book Festival/Lived Lives
    “He was a good talker” was the comment from the woman behind me, which was about the most boring, understated comment...2009-09-15»
  • Sarah Waters /Edinburgh International Book Festival/ Meet The Author
    It may be what made her famous, but there's more to Sarah Waters than period dramas spiced-up with titillating lesbian...2009-09-15»
  • Vince Cable /Edinburgh International Book Festival/The Cornelian Asset Managers Event
    I’m not an economist. Really. And I did find myself drifting in this speech, not cos I didn’t follow it, just that the...2009-09-15»
  • Will Self /Edinburgh International Book Festival/Meet The Author
    On leaving the theatre a lady complained of being disappointed that Will Self had read for about fifty minutes of his...2009-09-15»

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