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UnboundWelcome to Unbound 2011
Unbound is back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011, offering up another free programme of late night performance, music and literature in the Charlotte Square Spiegeltent. Programme Manager Roland Gulliver introduces the guide to this year's line-up Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
UnboundLove's Rebellious Joy – A Tribute to Paul Reekie
Irvine Welsh and the Subway Sect's Vic Godard pay tribute to the memory of Paul Reekie, while Gordon Legge shares a new piece of writing in honour of Scotland's most maverick man of letters Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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David Crystal @ EIBF
David Crystal has written Begat about the King James Bible’s influence on English language as a birthday present to it, for its 400th year in p... Read more »| 04 Sep 2010 -
BooksAndrew Greig @EIBF
A fishing trip in honour of Norman MacCaig is the backbone of Greig’s At the Loch of the Green Corrie and MacCaig’s voice was present thr... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
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Melvyn Bragg @ EIBF
What makes great art – where does it come from? Even with over 30 years of sharing popular and high art on The South Bank Show, Bragg conceded ... Read more »| 31 Aug 2010 -
BooksRoddy Doyle @EIBF
A Star Called Henry, the first in a planned trilogy to be titled The Last Roundup was published in 1999, and was followed in 2004 by Oh, Play That Th... Read more »| 30 Aug 2010
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Simon Crump & Ewan Morrison @ EIBF
When the chair, Aly Barr, tells you that he has been given the ‘young bloke’ strand of events and you sit in a room disturbingly close to... Read more »| 29 Aug 2010 -
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Paul Muldoon @ EIBF
Host Don Paterson made a surprising admission at the start of this event, that he’d been on Paul Muldoon’s Wikipedia page the night before and se... Read more »| 29 Aug 2010 -
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John Simpson @ EIBF
Who among us wouldn’t covet John Simpson’s air miles? His destinations we might not relish quite so much. Just back from Afghanistan and ... Read more »| 29 Aug 2010 -
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Steve Bloomfield @ EIBF
Steve Bloomfield is the author of Africa United, a book subtitled ‘How Football Explains Africa’ and was a journalist in Africa from 2006... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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Hanif Kureishi @ EIBF
Hanif Kureishi appeared in the largest tent, the RBS Tent, and drew a large crowd for this event, promoting his new volume of collected short stories... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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David Mitchell @ EIBF
I wasn’t prepared for quite how funny David Mitchell would be. Reading from his new novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, to a packed cr... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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Jonathan Bate and Kathleen Jamie: Poetry and Landscape @ EIBF
The two writers here were each qualified to talk about poetry and landscape in a different way. The poet Kathleen Jamie is, of course, a very accompl... Read more »| 27 Aug 2010 -
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Alan Moore @ EIBF
Alan Moore was interviewed by the Guardian’s political cartoonist Steve Bell, who said that he’d interviewed the master of the graphic st... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010 -
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Seamus Heaney @ EIBF
Have you ever been spellbound? It was only when I emerged from the Book Festival tent after listening to Seamus Heaney read poems from his latest col... Read more »| 26 Aug 2010