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Tag Archives: Edinburgh Book Festival
A Thank You to Steve Jobs
Image: Unknown RIP Steve Jobs Woke up to the sad news that Steve Jobs died in the early hours of the morning. Shocking to hear it come through although not entirely unexpected; it was public knowledge he had been seriously … Continue reading
Posted in Editorial Comment, Fiction, I.T., Poetry, Writing
Tagged Apple, Bill Gates, cancer, chapbook, crime, death, Duchess of Alba, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, essay, iMac, Indiana Jones, iPhone, iPod, magic, Microsoft, novella, pancreatic cancer, paranormal, poems, Poetry, Raiders ofthe Lost Ark, Savvy Authors, Steve Jobs, thriler, Windows, workshop, Writing
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Coming Down from the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Horia Varlan So, the Edinburgh Book Festival is over and Charlotte Square has emptied of human life. Already it feels like another time as I adjust back into the normality of daily life: the day job, the writing, the … Continue reading
Day 16 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It’s the penultimate day of the Edinburgh Book Festival. It’s all beginning to get reflective and a touch sad to realise that after today it will all be over for another year. That doesn’t mean for a moment, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading
Tagged bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Book Rambler, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Jacqueline Wilson, Joyce McWilliam, Liz Lochhead, Makar, Poetry, Reading, Rob Burdock, The Guardian, Tracey S. Rosenberg, writers
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Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
table style=float: left; border=0 width=170 tbody tr tdimg src=https://colingalbraith.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/eibf_colour_logo1.jpg alt=Day 15 at the Edinburgh Book Festival width=170 align=left //td /tr tr td align=centeremImage: EdBookFest/em/td /tr /tbody /table strongMelvyn Bragg/strong As one of a very small group of writers who attended … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh Book Festival, Reading, Writing
Tagged Adam Levin, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, CIA, City of Literature, Denise Mina, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, King James Bible, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Scheuer, Osama Bin Laden, Reading, Religion, terrorism, The Guardian, USA, writers
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Day 14 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was a nightmare Friday. Simply hellish. The only good bit of it came between 6am when I got out of my bed and 8am when a day job disaster took over everything for the rest of the … Continue reading
Day 13 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest It was kind of muggy over Edinburgh for the 13th day of the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday. Would it rain or wouldn’t it, the question was on everyone’s lips. I’d arranged a half day from my day job … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Glasgow, Reading, Writing
Tagged Advanced Dialogue Workshop, Alexander Shannon, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, British Army, charity, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, criminals. organised crime, David Leslie, Devon Ellington, eBooks, EdBookFest, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, exhibition, GDR's, Glasgow, iMac, Irvine Welsh, James Robertson, Knockshinnoch, Louise Welsh, mining disaster, murder, Muriel Spark, Reading, Robert Louis Stevenson, Savvy Authors, Scotland, Scottishness, The Guardian, Trees for Life, underworld, William Burroughs, William McIlvanney, writers
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The iMac Cometh
Image: Colin Galbraith Yesterday was supposed to have seen the traditional August at the Fringe gathering of The Diners but alas, one or two of them messed up their schedules and it had to be canned. It will be rearranged … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, I.T.
Tagged Apple, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, computers, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, iMac, Internet, Reading, technology, The Guardian, writers
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November, and Why It Rocks
November I love November. I love the shift from the unsettled weather of October, which can often have Scotland shivering under a bitter sky one minute then basking in warm sunshine the next. Technically, it’s classed as autumn, but it’s … Continue reading →