Tag: Edinburgh International Book Festival

Dram-it: Scots author wishes she had made her most popular character enjoy whisky instead of gin

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Molly Finlay - September 1, 2023

SCOTS author Val McDermid admits she made a "tactical error" by making her most popular character a gin fan as she keeps receiving bottles...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Rory Stewart: Talking the talk and walking the walk

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Ross McCafferty - August 28, 2019

Former Conservative leadership candidate, MP Rory Stewart talked of life following the leadership campaign, his passion and love for walking and previous ventures across...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Kai Strittmatter reminds us that China is as complicated as it is large

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Michael Conway - August 27, 2019

New York Times journalist Steven Erlanger, author and journalist Kai Strittmatter and Tech correspondent for the Financial Times Yuan Yang gathered in the Spark...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Sue Perkins on travelling as a gay woman and her blunders filming in the far East

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John Glover - August 22, 2019

SUE Perkins talked enthusiastically about her experience bumbling through Asia, laughing along with crowds at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Tuesday (20thAug). She also...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Insect specialist Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson on six legged life and introducing insects into out diet

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Louis Boyd-Madsen - August 22, 2019

ANNE SVERDRUP-THYGESON, Professor of Conservation Biology and insect specialist, discussed how crucial insects are to us presently and the ways we may need to...

BOOK FESTIVAL – Peter Hitchens on “The Phony War: The World War II Illusion”

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Michael Conway - August 21, 2019

JOURNALIST, author and broadcaster Peter Hitchens, or “the hated Peter Hitchens” as he sometimes refers to himself, was on stage at the Edinburgh Book...

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