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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 8 at the Edinburgh Book Festival
Image: Porto & Fi Another cracking, if somewhat shorter day at the Edinburgh Book Festival–only 8 hours spent in Charlotte Square instead of the requisite dozen. Tiredness, however, is beginning to creep into affairs. Long days coupled with intense periods … Continue reading
Posted in Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, Poetry, Publishing and Marketing
Tagged bloggers, Blogging, Book Festival, Books, Britannia Spice, British literature, Charlotte Square, City of Literature, Diane Parkin, Douglas Adams, EdBookFest, Edinburgh Book Festival, Edinburgh: City & Festivals, Indian food, JF Derry, Joseph Brooker, Leith, Louise Welsh, Paul Mundoon, photo shoot, Poetry, Pulitzer prize, Ray Ryan, Reading, Robin Robertson, Sam Leith, self-publishing, Shakespeare, Simon Lelic, Spiegeltent, T S Eliot, The Guardian, writers
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