Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival

•  When I Sing, Mountains Dance

  ““Nothing lasts very long,” the mountains say chillingly, “Not a thing. Not stillness. Nor calamity. Nor the sea. Nor your ugly little children.””

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  29th Oct 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fiction, Irene Sola, Lucie Elven, Mara Faye Lethem, Spanish literature, When I Sing Mountains Dance

• We Move

  “You only had to wait so long when reading a western story about India to come across a mango, a railway or a spiritual awakening”

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  11th Apr 2023

  Book Review: Fiction

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, Fiction, Gurnaik Johal, Serpent's Tail, Short Stories, short story athology

•  An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life

  “Then, after four, there would be calm, and by five, when the night manager left to do the night’s cash drop, the floor staff would sit on milk crates behind the restaurant, next to the skip, and smoke weed, and though no one offered Sam weed, Sam would sit with them or stand in their…

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  22nd Dec 2022

  Book Review: Fiction

  All Time Favourites, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Existentialism, Fiction, Paul Dalla Rosa, Serpent's Tail, Short Stories, short story athology

• Literary Lover’s Lockdown Lowdown

  

  Some suggestions of what to do during lockdown as a literary enthusiast.

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  13th Apr 2020

  Round-Up, Uncategorized

  Afra Atiq, Creative Writing, crime, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Experiences, Featured, Independent Publisher, Literary events, Literary festival, lockdown, lockdown litfest, Palm Sized Press, Peter James, Poetry, Print Future's Award, The London Bookfair, Writing Competition

• Day 3, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Nesrine Malik

  

  By Megan Thomas It has taken me long enough, hasn’t it? But I didn’t want to bombard you, readers (mom), with the whole experience in one go – it’s all about strategic posts, you see. Or at least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. My final event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival…

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  2nd Oct 2019

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, Literature Experience

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, event, Experiences, Non-fiction

• Day 2, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Anita Anand

  

  Discussion and presentation by Anita Anand on her new book, “The Patient Assassin”, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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  10th Sep 2019

  Edinburgh International Book Festival

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, event, Experiences, Non-fiction

• Day 2: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Elif Shafak

  

  Discussion with Elif Shafak on her new book, “10 minutes 38 seconds in this Strange World”, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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  3rd Sep 2019

  Booker Prize 2019, Edinburgh International Book Festival

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, event, Fiction

• Day 1: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Cocktails and Colouring

  

  A gin-tasting and colouring-in event with Eilidh Muldoon and Nikki Welch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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  24th Aug 2019

  Edinburgh International Book Festival

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, event, Fiction

• Day 1: Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sue Perkins

  

  Discussion with Sue Perkins on her new book, East of Croydon, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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  23rd Aug 2019

  Edinburgh International Book Festival

  Edinburgh International Book Festival, event, Non-fiction