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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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FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Will Gompertz
As the BBC’s Arts Editor, Will Gompertz is undoubtedly an expert on the subject. But, the decision in 2009 to appoint him as the new artsy one for... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Robert Peston
The BBC’s Business Editor Robert Peston, who has also been a stockbroker, certainly knows a thing or two about money. He reported extensively on the ba... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Neil Gaiman with Charles Fernyhough
Best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman is often described as "the most loved living writer," and the excited cheers that welcome him to a crowded Baillie Gi... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: 50 Years of Doctor Who
Given Doctor Who's current mainstream success and the likely geekfest around this November's 50th anniversary celebrations, it's important to remember there ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Will Morris & Edward Ross
In terms of both visual style and subject matter, Will Morris and Edward Ross are pretty different as comic creators: Morris with his heartfelt coming-of-age... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Ben Aaronovitch & Paul Cornell
Ben Aaronovitch and Paul Cornell both have "previous" when it comes to writing Doctor Who, on television and in novels. However, as chair Stuart Kelly points... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013
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FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Fifty Shades of Feminism
Unusually the chair of this event Kate Mosse, author and co-founder of the Women’s Prize for Fiction is also one of the contributors to the book under ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood’s novels have provided some of the most harrowing depictions of our apparently imminent descent into dystopia as well as offering tales... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: The James Tait Prize
With past winners such as D.H Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Graham Greene and Salmon Rushdie, the James Tait Prize is the oldest and, some might argue, the most pr... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam
The Edinburgh Book Festival serves as the launch event of The Man Booker Prize-winning Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s latest novel, MaddAddam, with ... Read more »| 28 Aug 2013 -
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The Lure of the Honey Bird by Elizabeth Laird
In turns an account of the cultural heritage of Ethiopia and of its subsequent dissolution and forefeiture by the increasing modernity of the country, The ... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Gutter 09
The latest crop of new Scottish writing is a bumper one, with an abundance of excellent poems and prose. In the last issue the magazine called for entries in... Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Canongate: The 40-Year Itch
In the second part of our look into the 40th birthday celebrations of world-renowned Scottish publisher, Canongate, we throw open the application process to storytellers from across the arts Read more »| 26 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Maggie O’Farrell
As the rain beats down on the roof of the Baillie Gifford Theatre, Maggie O’Farrell discusses her new novel, Instructions for a Heatwave. The irony of ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh Internartional Book Festival: Charles Moore
Magnus Linklater opens the discussion by marvelling at Margaret Thatcher’s power to provoke long after her premiership had ended. Despite having comple... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013