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Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Monday, 30 September 2024

Irvine Welsh Resolutions, Edinburgh book festival 2024

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  Welsh has had a great deal of success since his first novel Trainspotting 1993 was made into a film.  He spoke about his new book   Resolu...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Joseph Stiglitz Road to freedom, Edinburgh book festival 2024

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    Stiglitz is a Nobel Laureate,  worked for the world bank and a chief economist under Clinton -   His new book, Road to Freedom, looks at...
Friday, 30 August 2024

Caroline Lucas Another England at Edinburgh book festival 2024

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  T he nation is a construct of stories” Phillip Larkin.   Fourteen years in the European parliament, and former English Green party leader ...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Edinburgh Book Festival 2024

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  EIBF 2024 Since 2006 I have attended the EIBF. I would enjoy the fun, exuberance and festivities of the high street and after the walk dow...
Thursday, 31 August 2023

Edinburgh Festivals 2023!

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  Warm and muggy today. There’s a long queue at the Jazz Bar, for a Joni Mitchell tribute. I’m at Biblos restaurant at the corner of Chamber...

Culture Wars Florence in Three Fires, Denise Mina Edinburgh book festival 2023

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Denise Mina held a lively chat  with fellow crime writer  Christopher Brookmyre In her new book Three Fires, award-winning author Mina re-im...

Dundee Poet Don Paterson Edinburgh book festival 2023

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  Paterson is an award-winning poet Music is his first passion – he went from musician to poet in the 90s. Paterson used music to access his...

Moving Forward Dugdale & Riddoch, Edinburgh book festival 2023

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If we agree on the destination, how can we then agree on the road to reach it?  “We must find a middle ground – otherwise we in Scotland are...