2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival

Alexander Masters (2016 Event)

A Life on the Scrap Heap In 2001, almost 150 tattered notebooks were discovered in a skip in...

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Shirin Ebadi (2016 Event)

My Fight for Human Rights The first Muslim woman and first Iranian to win a Nobel Peace Prize,...

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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...

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David Millar (2016 Event)

Life in the Peloton Those lucky enough to witness David Millar’s spellbinding Book Festival...

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Ben Rawlence (2016 Event)

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Dadaab Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya has existed for 25 years....

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Nina Stibbe (2016 Event)

The Funniest Writer in Britain? Already a wildly popular author thanks to her memoir Love, Nina...

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Kenny MacAskill (2016 Event)

Unlocking Lockerbie In 2009, then Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill controversially granted the...

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Edna O'Brien (2016 Event)

One of the Greatest Irish Writers Philip Roth has called it Edna O’Brien’s masterpiece; for...

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Kevin Barry (2016 Event)

John Lennon’s Bad Trip Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone recently won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for...

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Alaa Al Aswany (2016 Event)

Egypt: A Devastating Portrait In 2002, The Yacoubian Building was an international bestseller,...

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Packie Bonner (2016 Event)

The Goalkeeper Who Saved the Day The idea that footballers stay with one club throughout their...

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Philippe Sands (2016 Event)

East West Street There is no lawyer quite like Philippe Sands QC. Outspoken on a range of human...

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Mark Haddon (2016 Event)

Nine More Curious Incidents First he found literary acclaim with The Curious Incident of the Dog...

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Miranda Sawyer (2016 Event)

Middle-Aged Misery Mid-life crises arrive at different times for different people. For...

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Mervyn King (2016 Event)

Making Banking Better Nearly a decade after the Great Recession of 2007-09, banking may have...

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Janet Ellis & Lorna Gibb (2106 Event)

Dangerous Heroines Two debut novels whose lead characters will entrance, unnerve and delight....

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Michel Faber (2016 Event)

Strange to be Doing This Without Her The acclaimed author of Under the Skin and The Book of...

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Jonathan Safran Foer (2016 Event)

Extremely Talented and Incredibly Close The bestselling US author of Everything is Illuminated...

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James Kelman (2016 event)

A Road Trip Through America With the publication of Dirt Road, Scotland’s only Booker Prize...

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Mark Billingham with Val McDermid (2016 Event)

Deceptively Brilliant Fiction With over three million copies of his books sold to date, Mark...

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