Books
The Skinny book guide – bringing you book reviews, features, events, reviews and author interviews. Find previews and on the ground reporting from festivals of literature and poetry in Scotland and beyond.
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Events
Francis Fukuyama (skinnyfest)
One of the most influential and controversial political theorists of our time discusses the failure of American neoconservatism and the war in Iraq. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Features
Book Ahead! [SKINNYFEST]
Festival director Catherine Lockerbie gives us the skinny on the festival and reveals her top picks of 2006. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Features
Banipal Live [Skinnyfest]
Discover the rich and diverse world of Arab writing with four of the finest Arab writers working in English. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Events
Sir Roger Penrose
One of the most influential physicists of our time gives us the skinny on the whole damn universe. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Events
Francis Fukuyama
One of the most influential and controversial political theorists of our time discusses the failure of American neoconservatism and the war in Iraq. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Events
Doris Lessing
Still going strong after six decades of creative output. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006
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Events
Banipal Live
Discover the rich and diverse world of Arab writing with four of the finest Arab writers working in English. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Book Reviews
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Shelve this one next to the Bible. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Events
Segun Afolabi
Afolabi is one of the freshest and most original voices in contemporary literature. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Features
Christopher Brookmyre's Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Skinnyfest)
You know, the psychos in your school? At the time you were just used to them being violent and unpredictable. Later you go back and ask what was going on in the background that nobody knew about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Features
Christopher Brookmyre's Blood and Hard Black Pencil
You know, the psychos in your school? At the time you were just used to them being violent and unpredictable. Later you go back and ask what was going on in the background that nobody knew about? Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
EventsDavid Sedaris
An alternative Garrison Keillor, with waspishly queer observations and cheery tales of Dinah the Christmas Whore replacing good old down-home wisdom Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
The Man With the Silver Tongue
People did not take machetes and start cutting other people into pieces overnight. There's a kind of hatred between Hutus and Tutsis that has been developed through our history. The international community does not want to see it that way, even now. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Festivals
Tony Benn
At a sprightly 81 years of age, still bouncing around healthily and wagging his lefty political tail with some force, Tony Benn is probably the best advert f... Read more »| 14 Aug 2006 -
Book Reviews
Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
Forna's talent lies within her ability to construct myth around the hard facts of reality. Read more »| 14 Aug 2006