Events
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Festivals
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 -
FestivalsJon 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 -
FestivalsChristos 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 -
FestivalsDan 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 -
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Mairi Hedderwick @ EIBF
Talking about how she creates her watercolours of Scotland, Mairi Hedderwick says she doesn’t paint at the scene itself – ‘somebod... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Iain Banks @ EIBF
An audience member asked Iain Banks, at the end of his Book Festival event, how he thought he had changed over the years, to which he replied, &ldquo... Read more »| 17 Aug 2010 -
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James Robertson @ EIBF
James Robertson was at the book festival to launch The Lay of the Land, his state of the nation novel about Scotland in the latter half of the twenti... Read more »| 17 Aug 2010 -
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Martin Creed @ EIBF
“A lot of making is trying to do things to make me feel better.” So says the artist who this year has taken over the Edinburgh festivals – ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2010