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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: 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 -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 -
Book Reviews
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 -
Book ReviewsGutter 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 -
Features
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 -
FestivalsEdinburgh 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 -
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Edinburgh 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 Reviews
Play 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 -
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Edinburgh 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 -
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Edinburgh 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