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Fiona Williams: AL Kennedy, Tam Dean Burn and Somerset Maugham award winner Rodge Glass are invited by the organisers of DiScomBoBuLate to show what they can do in a ...
Lemma Shehadi: Melvyn Bragg 29 August 11:30am Melancholy, moving and introspective, Lord Bragg's latest novel Remember Me—inspired by the suicide of his firs...
Lee Bunce: It can be easy, in the whirlwind of creativity that is Edinburgh in August, to take our freedom to express ourselves for granted. A sobering reminder ...
Ed Ballard: The marquees may still be going up in Charlotte Square, but the few days before the International Book Festival kicks off are the perfect time to expl...
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Lizzie Cass-Maran: Feeling dreary? Feeling just a little bit too close to reality? You need never have that feeling again, as now for the first time ever you too can h...
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Lindsay West: Friends, readers, cult fiction fanciers; you are hereby cordially invited to the union of two fractious, brazen youths of the literary world - prodigi...
Erin McElhinney: In August, anything with the word 'free' in it automatically draws the eye. So much so that companies and publicists have even been known to use the w...
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Keir Hind: Anne Donovan has written two previous books, and baith are written in whit ah’d call a ‘pure nifty version’ of the Glaswegian Dialec...
Ellis Falconer: The Edinburgh performance poetry scene’s longest-running night went out with a bang last month, as the mighty Big Word took a bow after a strong...
Anna Battista: People are beginning to realise that the Arab world is not the homogenous mono-culture that has been represented stereotypically as a world of camels,...
Bram Gieben: Among today's literary young guns, there is a certain blank-eyed uselessness: a pre-packaged functionality of both prose and person. It is no doubt a ...
R. J. Thomson: Francis Fukuyama is a philosopher and political economist who has always possessed a powerful ability to capture the imagination of the wider public. ...
Ali Maloney: Sir Roger Penrose is one of the most important physicists of our time and his appearance at the Book Festival is one of the most exciting events of th...
