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Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival

BOOKS – Call The Midwife Star’s Personal Generation Game

EVENT: Stephen McGann - Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Maladies (Simon and Schuster) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, Edinburgh International...

REVIEW – Fact easier than fiction as O’Farrell mines her multiple near death experiences

EVENT: Maggie O’Farrell: This Must Be The Place (Tinder Press) VENUE: Baillie Gifford Tent, Edinburgh International Book Festival     By JEAN WEST WHEN the already well-loved author Maggie O’Farrell...

Leading novelist confirmed for event at Edinburgh International Book Festival

One of the world's leading novelists is set to make an appearance at he Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his new novel.   Award winning...

Mysterious book sculpture pays tribute to the late Iain Banks

EDINBURGH’S ANONYMOUS book sculptor has paid tribute to the late Iain Banks in their latest delivery to the city’s International Book Festival. Excited crowds gathered...

Rankin: cop like Rebus would not join today’s “touchy feely” police

WORKING class mavericks such as fictional detective John Rebus would not join today’s Scottish police, according to writer Ian Rankin. Rankin described modern policing as...

Shortlist released for Scotland’s largest literary prize

TWENTY authors have been shortlisted to win £30,000 in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012, in partnership with Creative Scotland. Spread across four...

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