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Book Launch – Outside the Beechwood by Ellie Buchanan and Lizzie Mikietyn

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In Ellie Buchanan and Lizzie Mikietyn’s beautiful new book Outside the Beechwood, readers will meet Macky, a great and furry creature - a young...

Book Review – Salvage by Mark Baillie

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Nash Lacklow is dying. A lifetime of poor housing, dirty jobs and smoking has caught up with him, and now his emphysema’s at stage four....

BOOK REVIEW: The Echoes of Us by Emma Steele

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"I never really thought about it before. How brief life is. How it can be there one moment, and gone the next. Over in...

BOOK REVIEW: What Doesn’t Kill Us by Ajay Close

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What Doesn’t Kill Us by Ajay Close will be published by Saraband on 8 February 2024. On 2 January 1981, over five years after committing...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Robin Ince: Weapons of Empathy★★★★★

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Robin Ince has endeared himself to me before his show even starts. First he hands out cards and asks us all to write down any...

What’s On in Edinburgh in December

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Music, film, LGBT+, theatre, children's events, Christmas fairs, art, poetry, stand up, books, festive gardens, talks, tours, storytelling....it would be easier to say what's...

Book Review – Death Drop by Claire MacLeary

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In Death Drop, her fifth Harcus & Laird detective novel, Edinburgh author Claire MacLeary addresses issues around bullying, domestic violence, cross-dressing, cyber fraud and...

Book Festival ‘Outriders’ to set off on four European journeys

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Today (Wed. 21st Sept) the Edinburgh International Book Festival announced the launch of the third edition of Outriders, an exciting project that will see...

2022 hybrid presentations help make this year’s Book Festival a success

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'All Together Now' was the overarching theme announced in June, and this year’s Book Festival saw families, adults and school pupils flock to the...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 17

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Yesterday (29th Aug) was the final day of Edinburgh's International Book Festival. Returning to the Edinburgh College of Art for a second year, it...

EIBF – Day 11 – Katherine Rundell

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The poetry of John Donne feels as fresh, funny and radiantly beautiful in the 21st century as it must have done in the 17th....

EIBF – Day 7 – Graeme Macrae Burnet

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When reading a novel, who can we trust to tell us the truth? Graeme Macrae Burnet’s new novel Case Study, set in mid-60s London, plays...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Ricky Ross

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Thursday's author was Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross, who was at Central Hall - a new venue for EIBF - publicising his book 'Walking Back...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 5 – Vashti Bunyan

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This year's EIBF is dispensing with the daily, multiple author photo calls and are limiting them to a few per day so there will...

Dynamic and diverse free schools’ programme announced by EIBF 2022

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Earlier today, the Edinburgh International Book Festival announced a free and fully hybrid line up of events for primary and secondary school pupils this...

Book Review: Errant Blood by CF Peterson

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Eamon Ansgar has been away. The son and heir of the laird of Duncul Castle has served in Afghanistan and tried his hand in the...

Free tickets and books for all school kids at the 2022 Edinburgh International Book...

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Thanks to the generosity of long-term Lead Sponsor, Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh International Book Festival has been able to announce that this year’s Schools...

Calls go out for ‘Scotland’s Stories Now’ from Edinburgh International Book Festival

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In response to Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh International Book Festival today (Tue Feb 15th) announced a new project gathering and creating stories...

Books – We Could Be…Bowie And His Heroes by Tom Hagler

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While there has been something of a deluge of Bowie book’s since the singer’s passing, there are some gems out there for the discerning...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 2

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This year's EIBF galleries will be somewhat lacking in comparison to days of yore. Arrangements for the Festival were put in place before various...

Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 1

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There's a new venue and a new format for Edinburgh's renowned International Book Festival as the traditional site in Charlotte Square Gardens has been...

Where to find pristine secondhand children’s books in Edinburgh

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Would you like to kit out your child with an engrossing, varied library? Would you prefer to do so without breaking the bank? Few people...

Books – Help to Kickstart The Wilds

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Bereavement is hard at any age, but perhaps especially for young adults; why not help to Kickstart a new poetry comic book and be...

Central Children’s Library celebrates Bookbug Week

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Join Central Children's Library staff for an outdoor Bookbug Big Splash session! This is a free, but ticketed, family only event, and is not suitable...

Round the world in a year – another twelve to write the book

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Ian Pilbeam's lockdown project was to publish a book. And he has. The background to the book has taken several years, but Ian has...

Book review – Secret Edinburgh An Unusual Guide by Hannah Robinson★★★★

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I have lived in Edinburgh for the past 12 years and I pride myself on learning and getting to know many of the unusual...

New book is treehugger’s delight

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Edinburgh photographer Anna Deacon and author Vicky Allan’s latest book examines our relationship with trees. For the Love of Trees is the story of why...

A damn good read – Queen of Crime Val McDermid on The First Modern...

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Her novels have been translated into 40 languages and sold 16 million copies worldwide, so Val McDermid knows a thing or two about crime...

Edinburgh woman’s death – the first modern murder

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It was one of the most sensational murder trials of the 20th century. If it had not been for the combined brilliance of three Scottish...

Opening weekend of EIBF Online attracts global audience

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For authors, audiences - and for the Book Festival’s own team who have had to completely change their way of delivering a festival -...

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