Edinburgh Festivals
The Skinny guide to art, book and film festivals in Edinburgh. The latest previews, reviews and features.
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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 -
BooksChris 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 -
BooksDenise 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 -
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Jeanette 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 -
BooksAlberto Manguel @ EIBF
When Alberto Manguel entered the Corner Theatre on Tuesday, there can’t have been more than fifteen of us, spread out like islands in a baffled... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
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A L Kennedy @ EIBF
With the possible exception of Alistair Darling, few authors appearing at this year’s Book Festival could be expected to reference Creamola Foa... Read more »| 19 Aug 2010 -
BooksChristos Tsiolkas @ EIBF
This year’s Book Festival begins with a slap. It's a full house in the Highland Park Spiegeltent to hear Christos Tsiolkas talk about his Booker-nomina... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Dan Cruickshank @ EIBF
Dan Cruickshank requires no lessons in architectural history. But he could do with some guidance on public speaking. Cruickshank’s new book is ca... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010 -
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Philip Pullman @ EIBF
Inasmuch as we love Lyra Belacqua, so does Philip Pullman love Jesus: a poetic genius, social reformer, and protagonist of the greatest story ever to... Read more »| 18 Aug 2010