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Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novel. Show all posts
Monday, 31 July 2023

Black & White Photos at Edinburgh book festival

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Mark Baeumont Tarqi Ali Some portraits from the Edinburgh international book festival, because of their contrast go well into black and whit...
Thursday, 29 June 2023

Edinburgh 40th Book festival 2023

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  This years festival returns to the Edinburgh Art college with  600 live events, as it marks its 40th year, organisers have announced. Ther...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Walter Scott’s fake nationalism and false myths of Scotland

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“pervasive, second-rate sentimentalist, associated with tartan nostalgia.”  For Walter Scott -  “the past is gone, beyond recall.” ….it evok...
Sunday, 11 September 2022

Lea Ypi on Freedom with Allan Little Edinburgh book festival 2022

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  ‘Coke can with a rose’ was a symbol of the west She spoke of the special shops for tourists, and a marker of contact with the outside worl...
Friday, 15 August 2014

George RR Martins Talk at Edinburgh

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"I am a writer who likes to ask questions." He said he liked to do things that some thought couldn’t be done and he liked to bre...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

Goa Xingjian

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Goa is from China, after speaking out against the cultural revolution he now lives in exile in France, in his Second Life.  As happened in R...
Thursday, 15 September 2011

*Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF)

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Neil Gaiman Lazlo Krasznahorkai Simon Callow Joan Bakewell John Vailliant John Byrne Michael Ondaa...