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Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Dram-it: Scots author wishes she had made her most popular character enjoy whisky instead of gin

SCOTS author Val McDermid admits she made a "tactical error" by making her most popular character a gin fan as she keeps receiving bottles...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Rory Stewart: Talking the talk and walking the walk

Former Conservative leadership candidate, MP Rory Stewart talked of life following the leadership campaign, his passion and love for walking and previous ventures across...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Kai Strittmatter reminds us that China is as complicated as it is large

New York Times journalist Steven Erlanger, author and journalist Kai Strittmatter and Tech correspondent for the Financial Times Yuan Yang gathered in the Spark...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Sue Perkins on travelling as a gay woman and her blunders filming in the far East

SUE Perkins talked enthusiastically about her experience bumbling through Asia, laughing along with crowds at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Tuesday (20thAug). She also...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Insect specialist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson on six legged life and introducing insects into out diet

ANNE SVERDRUP-THYGESON, Professor of Conservation Biology and insect specialist, discussed how crucial insects are to us presently and the ways we may need to...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Peter Hitchens on “The Phony War: The World War II Illusion”

JOURNALIST, author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens, or “the hated Peter Hitchens” as he sometimes refers to himself, was on stage at the Edinburgh Book...

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