Reading the City at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
How do you navigate Edinburgh as a city of literature? Is there a map? Hosted by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature...
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Edinburgh International Book F podcasts
Ziauddin Sardar at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
The Future of Mecca Born in Pakistan and raised in Hackney, Ziauddin Sardar is one of the most respected experts on...
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Edwyn Collins & Grace Maxwell with Ian Rankin at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
‘Moving beyond words’ was one critic’s response to The Possibilities Are Endless, a documentary charting Edwyn...
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SJ Watson at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Honesty is Not the Best Policy in Crime Fiction S J Watson can count Dennis Lehane and Lionel Shriver among his fans...
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Monica Cantieni & Sunjeev Sahota at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Monica Cantieni’s The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, translated by Donal McLaughlin, tells the deeply moving story of...
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Monica Cantieni & Sunjeev Sahota at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Monica Cantieni’s The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, translated by Donal McLaughlin, tells the deeply moving story of...
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The Literacy Revolution at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
According to UNESCO, every region of the world during the last 20 years has seen gains in literacy rates, but the...
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Alexander Masters (2016 Event)
A Life on the Scrap Heap In 2001, almost 150 tattered notebooks were discovered in a skip in Cambridge. They were a...
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My Fight for Human Rights The first Muslim woman and first Iranian to win a Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi is a...
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Charles Fernyhough (2016 Event)
Voices in our Heads Two years ago, authors at the Book Festival took part in a major study into the multiple inner...
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Life in the Peloton Those lucky enough to witness David Millar’s spellbinding Book Festival event in 2011 will...
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The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Dadaab Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya has existed for 25 years. Originally created...
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The Funniest Writer in Britain? Already a wildly popular author thanks to her memoir Love, Nina and bestselling...
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Unlocking Lockerbie In 2009, then Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill controversially granted the release on...
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John Lennon’s Bad Trip Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone recently won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for ‘fiction at its most...
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Egypt: A Devastating Portrait In 2002, The Yacoubian Building was an international bestseller, establishing Alaa Al...
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The Goalkeeper Who Saved the Day The idea that footballers stay with one club throughout their career is almost...
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East West Street There is no lawyer quite like Philippe Sands QC. Outspoken on a range of human rights issues, from...
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Nine More Curious Incidents First he found literary acclaim with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,...
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Middle-Aged Misery Mid-life crises arrive at different times for different people. For journalist and broadcaster...
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