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26.08.2023
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Local writers and poets from across Edinburgh come together to
create a collective love letter to the city they call home.
Episode 3:
Flic McCann
Jacqueline Gilchrist
Hilary Birch
Anne Hogarth
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26.08.2023
1 Minute
Local writers and poets from across Edinburgh come together to
create a collective love letter to the city they call home.
Episode 2:
Elaine Harris
Sylvia Trotter
Janet Lewis
Susan Cheney
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26.08.2023
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Local writers and poets from across Edinburgh come together to
create a collective love letter to the city they call home.
Episode 1:
Barbara Munro
Anna Phillips
Anne Milne
Billy Cornwall
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12.05.2021
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Marian Keyes didn’t start writing until her twenties, she felt
that she was ‘all washed up at 30.’ But readers have had a love
affair with Keyes that has lasted over two decades now.
It’s hard to imagine a greater, more reliable comfort than a
new book by Marian Keyes landing solidly in your lap, promising
all the qualities that have come to define her work:
complicated family dynamics, bountiful quantities of laughter,
skeletons in the closet and uncomfortable moments of truth that
lie close to the bone. Her latest, Grown Ups, centres around
Cara Casey, who after a bang on the head finds herself
incapable of keeping mum on the family secrets.
With more than 35 million copies sold of her 13 novels to date,
Keyes’s own brand of irrepressible, generous, hilarious
storytelling goes from strength to strength. Join Keyes and
writer Jenny Colgan for an hour of
unforgettable grown-up fun in this event recorded live at the
2020 Book Festival.
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07.05.2021
1 Minute
‘You were always sitting in character, you were just never sure
which one.’ So says Norah to the memory of her mother in Actress,
the new novel by Anne Enright. The mother in question is
Katherine O’Dell, who died aged 58 – the same age Norah has now
reached.
Actress is a portrait of life in the theatre, of one woman’s rise
to fame and her subsequent decline, with all the challenges that
women on stage faced in the years before the #MeToo movement
shone light on them. But this novel is also a tender examination
of the relationship between mother and daughter – the
reconstruction of an emotional landscape in which fame has left a
trail of newspaper articles, photographs and public performances.
For this event, recorded live at the 2020 Book Festival, the
Booker Prize-winning novelist is joined by Vicky
Featherstone, Artistic Director of the Royal Court
Theatre and the first Artistic Director of the National Theatre
of Scotland, to discuss this sensitive portrayal of a life lived
in the spotlight.
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival is one of the largest
public celebrations of the written word in the world.
Internationally renowned writers and thinkers from around the world
gather at the Festival Village to trade stories, share ideas,
discuss the hot topics of the day, inspire audiences and answer
questions. The result is a wonderfully diverse programme of
creative, joyful, interactive experiences. You can listen to some
of the author events and discussions in this free series of
podcasts – a small selection of what goes on in Edinburgh during
August each year. There are also videos of selected events on
Edinburgh International Book Festival’s website and YouTube channel
(edbookfest).
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