Events
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Festivals
David Mitchell @ EIBF
I wasn’t prepared for quite how funny David Mitchell would be. Reading from his new novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, to a packed cr... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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Jonathan Bate and Kathleen Jamie: Poetry and Landscape @ EIBF
The two writers here were each qualified to talk about poetry and landscape in a different way. The poet Kathleen Jamie is, of course, a very accompl... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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Alan Moore @ EIBF
Alan Moore was interviewed by the Guardian’s political cartoonist Steve Bell, who said that he’d interviewed the master of the graphic st... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
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Seamus Heaney @ EIBF
Have you ever been spellbound? It was only when I emerged from the Book Festival tent after listening to Seamus Heaney read poems from his latest col... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
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Lydia Davis @ EIBF
Lydia Davis made her Charlotte Square debut on a particularly inclement Edinburgh evening, the rain pattering on the marquee roof as though it wanted... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010 -
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Sara Wheeler @ EIBF
What’s the difference between the Antarctic and the Arctic, aside from their opposing polar locations? For Sara Wheeler, it’s life. The f... Read more »| 25 Aug 2010
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Best of European Fiction 2010 @ EIBF
This event was based around one book, with multiple authors, The Best of European Fiction 2010. The book is a fantastic idea – it has contribut... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
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James Shapiro @ EIBF
James Shapiro is a Professor of English Literature at Columbia University in New York, and a Shakespeare scholar. His book 1599: A Year in the Life o... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
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Andrea Levy @ EIBF
Andrea Levy came across as a very pleasant, very normal person in her event, which was largely concerned with her (Booker longlisted) novel The Long ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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The Future of Books @ EIBF
The big sea-change may be upon us; apparently e-books are now outselling hardbacks on Amazon whilst Barnes and Nobel is up for sale. The panel (Nicho... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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The James Tait Black Memorial Prize @ EIBF
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is the oldest literary award given in Britain, and host Ian Rankin here was keen to point out the fact that the s... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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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