Events
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Festivals
Chris Killen and John Wray @ EIBF
The dynamic of Book Festival match-ups must be difficult for programmers to predict, but Thursday’s pairing of Canongate stable-mates Chris Kil... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Denise Mina & Alan Warner @EIBF
This event was originally to have had a third author, Amy Bloom, but her cancellation left two, Alan Warner and Denise Mina. The event was based arou... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Will China Rule The World? @ EIBF
Introducing authors Richard McGregor and Jonathan Watts, moderator Alan Little described them as having “China in their veins.” “And in our... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Michal Witkowski @ EIBF
Michal Witkowski’s Book Festival appearance had everything going for it. After a quick reading in the original Polish, Witkowski handed over to... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010 -
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David Shrigley @ EIBF
The funniest man in art appears at the Book Festival to promote his new book, What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley. It’s an anthol... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010 -
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Jon Kalman Stefánsson and Robert Alan Jamieson @ EIBF
A pairing of two authors from northerly places (certainly north of Edinburgh) seems like a good idea, and both Robert Alan Jamieson, from Shetland, a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010
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Jeanette Winterson @ EIBF
Literature is filled with larger-than-life characters inside its stories – The Edinburgh International Book Festival is the perfect medium to p... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Alasdair Gray @ EIBF
As the actors spoke the opening lines: ‘storm clouds, whose snow and hail and rains pour down... heralding the Lord’, so too did the Edin... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Christopher Brookmyre @ EIBF
Christopher Brookmyre has written a good few books now, but, as he told a packed audience during this event, his most read work would seem to be the ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Jeremy Hardy @ EIBF
Former Perrier Comedy award winner, and Radio 4 stalwart Jeremy Hardy attracted a large audience for this event, in aid of promoting his new book whe... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Alberto Manguel @ EIBF
When Alberto Manguel entered the Corner Theatre on Tuesday, there can’t have been more than fifteen of us, spread out like islands in a baffled... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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A L Kennedy @ EIBF
With the possible exception of Alistair Darling, few authors appearing at this year’s Book Festival could be expected to reference Creamola Foa... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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Christos Tsiolkas @ EIBF
This year’s Book Festival begins with a slap. It's a full house in the Highland Park Spiegeltent to hear Christos Tsiolkas talk about his Booker-nomina... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Dan Cruickshank @ EIBF
Dan Cruickshank requires no lessons in architectural history. But he could do with some guidance on public speaking. Cruickshank’s new book is ca... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Philip Pullman @ EIBF
Inasmuch as we love Lyra Belacqua, so does Philip Pullman love Jesus: a poetic genius, social reformer, and protagonist of the greatest story ever to... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010