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Showing posts with label writer. Show all posts
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 ...
Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Walter Scott, wizard of the north

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Walter Scott,   (1771 – 1832), was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his books are classics of Europea...
Monday, 30 August 2021

Ali Smith’s film 'Art in a Time of Lies' at Edinburgh International book festival 2021

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  Seeing Things - short film with wonderful images by film maker Wood   Edinburgh International book festival 2021   The highly-respected Sc...
Sunday, 29 September 2019

Is Scotland Ready?

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Irish Times writer Fintan O’Toole  is an excellent, creative thinker and I enjoyed his essays, in the Sunday National. He writes that we ...
Wednesday, 31 October 2018

Robert Burns Ellisland

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This summer I was so pleased to visit the last farm our great poet Robert Burns lived in. Ellisland is just north of Dumfries and incred...
Thursday, 29 June 2017

Our European past

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‘If you prick us, we’ll bleed Europe, the world.” Excellent article by Scottish writer AL Kennedy  who writes in the Bella Caledoni...