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BooksBest of European Fiction 2010 @ EIBF
This event was based around one book, with multiple authors, The Best of European Fiction 2010. The book is a fantastic idea – it has contribut... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
BooksJames Shapiro @ EIBF
James Shapiro is a Professor of English Literature at Columbia University in New York, and a Shakespeare scholar. His book 1599: A Year in the Life o... Read more »| 24 Aug 2010 -
BooksAndrea Levy @ EIBF
Andrea Levy came across as a very pleasant, very normal person in her event, which was largely concerned with her (Booker longlisted) novel The Long ... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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The Future of Books @ EIBF
The big sea-change may be upon us; apparently e-books are now outselling hardbacks on Amazon whilst Barnes and Nobel is up for sale. The panel (Nicho... Read more »| 23 Aug 2010 -
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The James Tait Black Memorial Prize @ EIBF
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is the oldest literary award given in Britain, and host Ian Rankin here was keen to point out the fact that the s... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Chris Killen and John Wray @ EIBF
The dynamic of Book Festival match-ups must be difficult for programmers to predict, but Thursday’s pairing of Canongate stable-mates Chris Kil... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010
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Denise Mina & Alan Warner @EIBF
This event was originally to have had a third author, Amy Bloom, but her cancellation left two, Alan Warner and Denise Mina. The event was based arou... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Will China Rule The World? @ EIBF
Introducing authors Richard McGregor and Jonathan Watts, moderator Alan Little described them as having “China in their veins.” “And in our... Read more »| 22 Aug 2010 -
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Michal Witkowski @ EIBF
Michal Witkowski’s Book Festival appearance had everything going for it. After a quick reading in the original Polish, Witkowski handed over to... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010 -
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David Shrigley @ EIBF
The funniest man in art appears at the Book Festival to promote his new book, What The Hell Are You Doing: The Essential David Shrigley. It’s an anthol... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010 -
BooksJon Kalman Stefánsson and Robert Alan Jamieson @ EIBF
A pairing of two authors from northerly places (certainly north of Edinburgh) seems like a good idea, and both Robert Alan Jamieson, from Shetland, a... Read more »| 21 Aug 2010 -
BooksJeanette Winterson @ EIBF
Literature is filled with larger-than-life characters inside its stories – The Edinburgh International Book Festival is the perfect medium to p... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Alasdair Gray @ EIBF
As the actors spoke the opening lines: ‘storm clouds, whose snow and hail and rains pour down... heralding the Lord’, so too did the Edin... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Christopher Brookmyre @ EIBF
Christopher Brookmyre has written a good few books now, but, as he told a packed audience during this event, his most read work would seem to be the ... Read more »| 20 Aug 2010 -
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Jeremy Hardy @ EIBF
Former Perrier Comedy award winner, and Radio 4 stalwart Jeremy Hardy attracted a large audience for this event, in aid of promoting his new book whe... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010