Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023 – Celebrating Joan Lingard
The author Joan Lingard was born in a taxi on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, but spent much of her childhood in Belfast, where her father worked on a Royal Navy training ship.
In 1950 she...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023 – Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller isn’t afraid to tell it like it is; he’s been doing just that for over 30 years, making art works that challenge us all to think differently.
Now he’s written a book...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023 – Alice Oseman: Stopping Hearts
I arrive much earlier than I usually would for Alice Oseman’s Edinburgh International Book Festival event. I know she’s popular and the tickets for this have been sold out for months.
Nevertheless, I am confronted...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2023 – Don Paterson
The poet Don Paterson says his Scottish identity only became apparent to him when he moved to London at the age of 20.
Before that he’d crossed the border precisely once, for a ‘terrible’...