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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: Ian Rankin
After the release last year of Standing in Another Man's Grave, Rebus fans were thrilled to see the curmudgeonly detective back on the trail of killers, gang... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Alasdair Gray
Predictably, the newspaper coverage of Alasdair Gray's talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival focuses on just a single word in a far-reaching and... Read more »| 19 Aug 2013 -
FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Muriel Spark, 50 years on
A mostly silver-haired audience was in attendance at the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre on Tuesday evening for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Muriel ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: AL Kennedy, Toby Litt & Rachel Cusk
Hosted by Ian Jack, the chair of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists panel in 2003, the year AL Kennedy, Toby Litt and Rachel Cusk were all featured, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Adam Marek & Rodge Glass
Adam Marek's second volume of short stories, Stone Thrower, has recently been published by Comma Press. Rodge Glass has recently written LoveSexTravelMusik, ... Read more »| 16 Aug 2013 -
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Mukesh Kapila
In recent years efforts have been made to bring to light the ongoing ethnic cleansing that has ravaged Sudan. Dave Eggers’ biographical novel of Valent... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013
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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Patrick Flanery & Philipp Meyer
The cult of Philipp Meyer has not quite made it across the pond yet at tonight’s two-thirds full Peppers Theatre. In the US Meyer has been making waves... Read more »| 14 Aug 2013 -
Book ReviewsLolito by Ben Brooks
Lolito, as the title suggests, is about a teenage boy who engages in inappropriate relations with an older woman. Ben Brooks’ novel is told from the po... Read more »| 12 Aug 2013 -
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Songs in the Key of Fife: Vic Galloway presents his love letter to the East Neuk
As he prepares to launch his insider's history of Fife's rich alternative musical history, we ask Vic Galloway why he wanted to tell this story, what makes The Fence Collective so special, and what he has planned for the Book Festival Read more »| 12 Aug 2013 -
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What the River Washed Away by Muriel Mharie Macleod
Life as a black woman in 1920s Louisiana, battling the double-barreled bigotry of race and gender, African-American, but without a true home in either, torn ... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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The Gardener from Ochakov by Andrey Kurkov
The Gardener from Ochakov is the latest offering from Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov. The darkly comic novel centres on the misadventures of Igor Andreevna w... Read more »| 05 Aug 2013 -
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The Good Word: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013
Edinburgh International Book Festival has grown to gargantuan proportions, showcasing hundreds of authors over sixteen days. Having thoroughly digested what’s on offer, we present to you our pick of the bunch Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
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Chris Ware: Building Worlds
Widely recognised as one of the most important voices in comics, Chris Ware will be at the Book Festival discussing his conceptually ambitious graphic novel Building Stories, as well as appearing in conversation with Joe Sacco Read more »| 01 Aug 2013 -
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Snake Road by Sue Peebles
Snake Road is a family drama focusing on the lives of three women across three generations of the Copella family. In the top floor of the family home, grandm... Read more »| 31 Jul 2013 -
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Four New Words For Love by Michael Cannon
"Things don't cost what you give for them, they cost what you give up to get them." So says Gina, an intelligent and resourceful young Glaswegian, who has pu... Read more »| 23 Jul 2013