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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