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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tom McCarthy at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Is Tom McCarthy a J G Ballard for the 21st century? Or is he just bullshitting? McCarthy would...
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Matt Haig at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Award-winning author Siobhan Dowd died in 2007, bequeathing her royalties to a trust which aims...
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Museums and Libraries at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Museums and galleries dominate as destinations, attracting record numbers of visitors to...
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Meera Syal at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Acclaimed actor, screenwriter and author of Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Meera Syal returned to...
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Kirstin Innes & Melinda Nadj Abonji at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Two novels which tackle issues of work and family head on. Kirstin Innes’ Fishnet takes us deep...
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Joe Sumner & Evie Wyld at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Evie Wyld is fast shooting to international fame as a novelist. Already the winner of Australia’s...
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Greg Proops at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Greg Proops is well-known for his appearances on the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?...
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Johann Hari at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
It’s a century since drugs were first banned in the United States, thus unleashing a war against...
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Why I Call Myself a Feminist at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
In this event entitled “a Rally, a Rant, a Story, a Song, a Protest, a Poem”, women – and men –...
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Chigozie Obioma & Simon Sylvester at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Chigozie Obioma’s thrillingly assured debut novel The Fishermen is set in small-town Nigeria,...
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Ryan Gattis and Marlon James at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
Images of the 1992 LA riots were beamed across the world as six days of violence left a city...
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Hyeonseo Lee at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
As a child of Kim Il-sung’s North Korea, a teenage Hyeonseo Lee believed the Dear Leader was her...
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Nicola Morgan at Edinburgh International Book Festival (edbookfest)
What is the 21st Century Doing to Our Teenagers? Nicola Morgan, author of Blame My Brain and The...
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