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Tag Archives: West Port Book Festival
A ‘Special’ Day’s Work
Image: KGB Clothing A decent day’s work. My final two blog posts from the West Port Book Festival went live over at my (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog: Click here to read David Gaffney & Hannah McGill. Click here to … Continue reading
Posted in Day Job, Edinburgh Book Festival, Fiction, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Glasgow, Music, Poetry, Websites
Tagged bevy, Blogging, dancing, David Gaffney, Day Job, Fiction, gig, Glasgow, Hannah McGill, Music, party, Poetry, pseudonym, Rob Shearman, SECC, ska, skanking, STV Edinburgh, The Specials, web dev, website development, websites, West Port Book Festival, Writing
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Making an Arse of it at the West Port Book Festival
Image: WPBF Emily Dodd Emily Dodd entertained a full house in West Port’s Edinburgh Books last night, with her own unique brand of poetry and song. Through tales of insomnia as a child, to Percy the Puffin, meeting The Queen, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Banana me Beautiful, BBC Scotland, beer, Blogging, Books, bookshops, CBeebies, Day Job, drinks, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Books, Emily Dodd, Grassmarket, Lothian Road, The Queen, West Port, West Port Book Festival
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Lift Off at the West Port Book Festival
Image: GuerrillaGeek.com West Port Book Festival I nipped up to Peter Bell’s Books in West Port after the day job to collect my tickets for the West Port Book Festival that begins today. Over the next four days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Family, Film & TV, Food, Drink and Bevvy, Leith, Poetry, Writing
Tagged Book Festival, Books, chapbook, Cold War, Colin Firth, eBooks, Edinburgh, festival, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, John La Carré, Kathy Burke, Leith, literature, MI6, movie, Ocean Terminal, Orange Wednesday, Peter Bell's Book, Pizza Express, poems, Poetry, Reading, The Shore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Hardy, Vue Cinema, West Port, West Port Book Festival, wpbf11
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Indian Summer
Image: Fernlea Hotel Summertime Really slow and warm day yesterday, and I mean really slow and warm. In fact, it was slower than a fish swimming through jelly, and warmer in the Athens of the North than it was in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Book Festival, Film & TV, Scotland, Writing
Tagged (Unofficial) Edinburgh Book Festival Blog, Athens, Blogging, cinema, Clive Owen, dialogue, Edinburgh, flix, GDR's, heat, Indian Summer, Jason Statham, Killer Elit, Literary Salon, movie, Ocean Terminal, Robert De Niro, Savvy Authors, summertime, West Port, West Port Book Festival, workshop, Writing
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