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The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh Book Signing @ Zavvi, Glasgow, 13 Sep

Books :: Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 12 Sep 2008

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 have a tiny, surreal, fragment of the Mighty Boosh on your book shelf. The Mighty Book of Boosh arrive...

Chuck Palahniuk

The Skinny Event - Chuck Palahniuk @ Charlotte Square Gardens, 16 Aug

Books :: Heads Up :: Preview 31 Jul 2008

Lindsay West: Friends, readers, cult fiction fanciers; you are hereby cordially invited to the union of two fractious, brazen youths of the literary world - prodigious U.S. novelist Chuck Palahniuk, and your humble Skinny magazine. If this were a real wedding, it wo...

West Port Book Festival Logo

Book Festival Fringe, with strippers

Books :: Preview 21 Jul 2008

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 word in their performance titles, just so their events come up top in any uninitiated-to-the-fringe tou...

Anne Donovan

Being Emily is pure great, but...

Books :: Feature :: Preview 25 Apr 2008

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 Dialect. Her first wis a short story collection called Hieroglyphics, and the second wis the novel Buddha Da...

High Energy Poetry Cabaret

High Energy Poetry Cabaret @ The Jazz Bar, 15 May

Books :: Heads Up :: Preview 24 Apr 2008

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, thirteen year run that covered Edinburgh, Glasgow and London. Host Jenny Lindsay presided over a cre...

Banipal Live

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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, deserts, sheikhs and women in hijabs on the one hand, and on the other of oil, fundamentalist Islamis...

Doris Lessing

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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 blinkered opinion to dismiss all the Zadie Smiths and Nick Hornbys of this world in one sweeping gestu...

Francis Fukuyama

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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. He made his name with the provocatively titled 'The End of History and the Last Man', in which he argu...

Sir Roger Penrose

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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 the summer. Penrose will be promoting his astonishingly ambitious new book, 'The Road to Reality: A Comp...

Francis Fukuyama (skinnyfest)

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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. He made his name with the provocatively titled 'The End of History and the Last Man', in which he argu...

Doris Lessing (skinnyfest)

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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 blinkered opinion to dismiss all the Zadie Smiths and Nick Hornbys of this world in one sweeping gestu...

Segun Afolabi

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

Anna Battista: The son of a diplomat, Segun Afolabi spent the early years of his life moving from one country to another with his family: Congo, Lagos, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, the UK. The list of countries where Afolabi lived is long, as is the list of authors wh...

Sir Roger Penrose

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

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 the summer. Penrose will be promoting his astonishingly ambitious new book, 'The Road to Reality: A Comp...

Doris Lessing

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

Bram Geiben: 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 blinkered opinion to dismiss all the Zadie Smiths and Nick Hornbys of this world in one sweeping gest...

Ekow Eshun

Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

Leo Wood: Back in the 1940s, after the horrors of the Second World War, a host of arts institutions were set up to bring some joy back to Britain's cultural life. The Edinburgh Festival, started in 1947, was one such project. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (...

David Sedaris

Deviance :: Books :: Preview 14 Aug 2006

Ruth Marsh: David Sedaris first shot to fame for his National Public Radio readings of The SantaLand Diaries, which detailed his career as a department store elf. These autobiographical vignettes established him as an alternative Garrison Keillor, with waspishly q...

You'll Never Forget Your First Time - the Debut Authors Festival

Books :: Preview 15 Jun 2006

Anna Battista: They are everywhere. Just look around, go into bookshops, leaf through magazines and papers, turn on the radio or switch on the TV: there are hundreds of new books, written by young and hip authors, up-and-coming literary starlets who are too often ove...