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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: Hadley Freeman
Troll baiter and Guardian cultural commentator Hadley Freeman arrives at the Book Festival to introduce Be Awesome: Modern life for Modern Ladies, a work she... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
Book ReviewsPlay With Me by Michael Pedersen
By turns elegiac, nostalgic, hilarious and deeply serious, Michael Pedersen's debut poetry collection, Play With Me, marks the arrival of an important new vo... Read more »| 22 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Edinburgh World Writers' Conference Event
A year after the launch of the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference, have any conclusions been made about the future of the novel? Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Laurie Penny
Both maligned and celebrated, at just 28 years old Laurie Penny is one of the most controversial journalists in the UK. She is appearing at the Edinburgh Boo... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Christopher Brookmyre
The author of 17 novels in as many years, Christopher Brookmyre enjoys the attention of a packed tent tonight, visiting the Edinburgh Book Festival to talk a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Can We Trust the Media?
The collapse of trust in the media is something that could be discussed all day it seems, particularly with Newsnight’s Gavin Esler and his pick of pan... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Andrew Marr
This appearance by one of the BBC’s finest journalists is among the most anticipated of this year’s Book Festival. This is after all Andrew Marr&... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Achmat Dangor
Edinburgh International Book Festival has a distinctly South African flavour this year. As well as this appearance from Achmat Dangor, there's a reading from... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield is the author of On the Map, which charts the impact of maps on world history and on our daily lives. He takes his Edinburgh audience on a jou... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Richard Holloway
Appearing before a full house at the Book Festival, Richard Holloway displays his customary common touch, common sense and uncommonly good way with words.&nb... Read more »| 21 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Sam Byers & Angela Jackson
Sam Byers and Angela Jackson's debut novels are nominated for the Book Festival's First Book Award, alongside 42 other hopefuls. Byers' book Idiopathy tells ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Doug Johnstone & Laura Lippman
Doug Johnstone is one of the rising stars of Scottish thriller writing, his novels characterised by their realistic, nuanced portrayals or ordinary people in... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Luke Wright & Michael Pedersen
Two poets who have made the leap from stage to page, defying the bias against performance poetry which still undeniably exists in the minds of academics and ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Denise Mina
For Denise Mina, writing crime fiction has always been a political choice. Her novels are deeply suffused with a yearning for social justice; her characters ... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Neil Forsyth
Although he gained national fame in a recent TV adaptation (starring the actor Brian Cox, who also voiced the radio incarnation of Neil Forsyth's character),... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013