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Tag Archives: Ian Rankin
Day 11 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest A full day at the Edinburgh Book Festival yesterday, but thanks to the late-night writing session the evening before, I slept in slightly and never arrived until shortly before 11am. On arriving, I collected my tickets from the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged BBC, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Coffee, Costa, crime fiction, Czeslaw Milosz, Don Paterson, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Esther Freud, Freudian, Ian Rankin, Kirsty Wark, Linda Grant, Lucian Freud, media, Newsnight, Orange Prize, podcasting, Poetry, Poland, Press Pod, Reading, Rebus, Robyn Marsack, Scottish Poetry Library, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, The Guardian, The Review Show, writers
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Day 9 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: EdBookFest The sun shone and the people came—that’s the picture to take from day 9, Sunday at the Edinburgh Book Festival. We sat around, we chatted, we bathed in the sun as it warmed our backs (and bald heads), … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Writing
Tagged A L Kennedy, Amanda Palmer, beers, bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Canongate, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, culture, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Ford Prefect, Frank Skinner, Giulia I. Sandelewski, Google, Guardian, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ian Rankin, Internet, Jamie Jauncey, JF Derry, John Mullan, Napster, Neil Gaiman, podcast, Reading, Robert Levine, Sean Fanning, summer, sun, sunshine, The Guardian, Weather, writers
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Fascinating, Fantastic and Fun: Trudeau, Heaney and McCall Smith
Image: The List Things conspired against me yesterday leaving me unable to post my blog entry. That’s twice in less than a week it’s happened and I am less than pleased with myself. Therefore, I voluntarily stick out my virtual … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Reading, Writing
Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, America, Andrew Sachs, Apple, cartoonist, Dianne Abbott, Doonesbury, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fringe Fantastic, Garry Trudeau, George Bush, Ian Rankin, iPhone, Jackie Kay, Labour MP, Mark Billingham, Michael Portillo, naughty, New York Times, poetry reading, Poolside Poetry, Roy Hattersley, Seamus Heaney, social media, spanking, Steve Bell, Twitter, USA, website statistics
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Ian Rankin And The Live Book Festival Twitter Feed
Image: Twitter Before I get stuck into yesterday’s goings on at the Edinburgh Book Festival, I want to say a humongous thanks to everyone who has emailed and tweeted me to express their enjoyment of my book festival blogging and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Fiction, Poetry, Scotland, Writing
Tagged blind, blindness, Blogging, Bookfest Burnout, Candia McWilliam, chapbooks, crime writing, death, Doors Open, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edwin Morgan, Fringe Fantastic, Ian Rankin, Lin Anderson, live tweeting, Makar, poems, Poetry, Poolside Poetry, Rebus, run-down, social media, The Complaints, Twitter, What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness
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Freedom from the Mundane 
No Hope for a Scottish Academy of Literature
Image: alba.org.uk Birthday wishes My dear young Mother (you owe me a fiver) had her birthday yesterday. 9th February 19-canteen saw my Mum coming into the world and yesterday she celebrated by having a nice meal out with family and … Continue reading →