PERFORMING POETRY WITH CHARM Meet the man who is a World Poetry Slam Champion turned full-time poet via a maths...
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Podcasts de Edinburgh International Book F
LIVING AFTER SURVIVING How to Survive a Plague is David France’s history of the fight against AIDS, the disease...
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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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Making Banking Better Nearly a decade after the Great Recession of 2007-09, banking may have become one of the...
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Janet Ellis & Lorna Gibb (2106 Event)
Dangerous Heroines Two debut novels whose lead characters will entrance, unnerve and delight. Evoking the blood,...
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Strange to be Doing This Without Her The acclaimed author of Under the Skin and The Book of Strange New Things reads...
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Jonathan Safran Foer (2016 Event)
Extremely Talented and Incredibly Close The bestselling US author of Everything is Illuminated launches his first...
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A Road Trip Through America With the publication of Dirt Road, Scotland’s only Booker Prize winner joins a Scottish...
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