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Literary Events Non-Fiction

Ali Millar in conversation with Etgar Keret an internationally acclaimed novelist who now turned his hand on memoir, at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. Etgar Keret was declared ‘a genius’ by the New Yorker: The Seven Good Years, translated into English by …

Etgar Keret : The Seven Good Years

Books Fiction Literary Events

Colin MacIntyre may be more familiar to some as the man behind Mull Historical Society. Under this pseudonym he has become one of the UK’s most respected songwriters and performers, releasing four albums to critical and chart success. Now Colin …

Colin Macintyre : The Letters of Ivor Punch

Books Festivals Literary Events Non-Fiction

Matt Haig spoke in front of a packed Book Festival audience about the importance of reading and writing in maintaining mental health and its role in helping him conquer depression, as part of the Festival’s Staying Well strand. Matt said …

Matt Haig : Reasons To Stay Alive

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Catriona O’Sullivan interviews Ragnar Jonasson at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Born in Reykjavik, Iceland Ragnar currently works as a lawyer having previously worked in TV and radio. He has translated 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic and set up …

Ragnar Jonasson : Snowblind

Literary Events

James Meadway is the senior economist at the New Economics Foundation, where his work focuses largely on developing responses to the recession and austerity. He formerly worked as a policy advisor at HM Treasury, covering regional economic development, science and …

James Meadway : Radical Independence Campaign 2014

Literary Events

A month after the horrific shootings that took place in the offices of Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, Scottish PEN invited panelists Joyce McMillan (journalist and critic), Greg Moodie (cartoonist) and Alan Bissett (author and playwright) to the Red Lecture …

Scottish PEN : Are we still Charlie?

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Ali Millar in an illuminating interview with Danish novelist and short-story writer Dorthe Nors at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Nors has burst onto the UK literary scene with a heady cocktail of short stories, ‘Karate Chop’, translated from the …

Dorthe Nors : Karate Chop/Minna Needs Rehearsal Space

Books Fiction Literary Events

It’s a wonderful sunny day in Edinburgh and Olivia Vitazkova meets up with Kate Mosse at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. It’s ten years since Mosse burst on the British literary scene with ‘Labyrinth’, the first of her Carcassonne-based Languedoc …

Kate Mosse : The Languedoc trilogy and The Taxidermist’s Daughter

Literary Events

Interview at the Wigtown Book Festival introducing Stuart’s new book ‘Looking South’ and a forthcoming Gaelic-Scots collaboration.

Stuart Paterson interviewed by David Rushton : ‘Looking South’ at the Wigtown Book Festival

Literary Events

Interviewed by Matthew Fitt, Jim Waite was winner of the 2017 Wigtown Book Festival Poetry award for a poem in the Scots Language category.

Jim Waite interviewed by Matthew Fitt : Wigtown Festival’s Scots Language Poetry award winner

Literary Events

Stuart introduces and recites his poem at the site of Margaret Wilson’s martyrdom (d.1685) …. A young Wigtown women drowned for refusing the abjuration oath in April, 1685,

Stuart Paterson : Margaret Wilson’s Abjuration

Books Festivals Literary Events

29 April 2017 Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford Towers and Tales is a celebration of children’s books, stories and illustration, designed to give young audiences unforgettable, creative and transformational experiences with books.

Jennifer Marshall : Towers and Tales

Books Festivals Literary Events

Paul Howard, Eileen Battersby and Anne Sebba, William Wall, Billy O’Callaghan and Alan McMonagle are the first of the writers to be announced for the 13th outing of the Cork World Book Festival running 18-23 April 2017 at Cork City …

Ann Luttrell and Liam Roynane : Cork World Book Fest 2017

Literary Events

Through poetry and history we explore the connections between Lowland Scots and Ulster Scots in a programme for local channel NvTv transmitting in Northern Ireland.

WriterStories : Scrievit in Scots

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Number ten in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Colin Macintyre and Julian Baggini

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Ninth in the current series of interviews with authors at the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Stephen Kelman and Ragnar Jonasson

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Latest in the 2015 WriterStories TV series from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Kate Mosse and Nick Barley

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Sixth in the 2015 series of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : A.D Miller and Patrick Gale

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Fifth in the 2015 WriterSeries of interviews from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Sergio Fajardo and Justin Cartwright

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Fourth in the 2015 series of WriterStories from the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Etgar Keret and Matt Haig

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Third in the 2015 series of WriterStories.

WriterStories : Louise Welsh and Mark Billingham

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

Second in the 2015 WriterStories series for TV transmission.

WriterStories : Michael Rosen and Rob Doyle

Books Festivals Fiction Literary Events

One of a series of broadcast programme length compilation of interviews from the 2015 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

WriterStories : Andrew O’Hagan and Andrew Cockburn

Literary Events

Angela Haggerty is a journalist, broadcaster and editor based in the west of Scotland and works at The Drum magazine and Common Weal. Haggerty was at the Radical Independence Conference, which was held in Glasgow, in November 2014, and saw …

Angela Haggerty : Radical Independence Conference 2014

Literary Events

Writer and co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign, Cat Boyd, talks at the Radical Independence Conference, which was held in Glasgow, in November 2014. The event saw an attendance of 3000 people, and talks from a number of speakers such …

Cat Boyd : Radical Independence Conference 2014

Books Fiction Literary Events

Ricky Brown interviews Doug Johnstone about his crime novels, writing process and the importance of setting at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Once a nuclear physicist, Doug Johnstone is now a successful writer and freelance journalist (and blogger) based in Edinburgh. In …

Doug Johnstone : The Jump

Books Fiction Literary Events

Here Are the Young Men depicts life for four young men on the savage streets of Dublin. Rob Doyle was born in Dublin, and holds a first-class honours degree in Philosophy and an MPhil in Psychoanalysis from Trinity College Dublin. …

Rob Doyle : Here Are the Young Men

Books Literary Events

Bestselling author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen is issuing a passionate plea to parents, families and children: to look beyond the school gates to see and learn about the world afresh. From understanding politics and religion to enjoying poetry …

Michael Rosen : Every Day is a School Day

Books Literary Events Non-Fiction

Ricky Brown talks to Caroline Criado-Perez at the Edinburgh Book Festival about her book ‘Do it Like a Woman: … And Change the World’. Winner of the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award, Caroline Criado-Perez is well known …

Caroline Criado-Perez : Do it Like a Woman

Books Literary Events

We interviewed Marc Lambert the CEO of Scottish Book Trust and author Anne Donovan about the exciting events at this years Book Week Scotland. Book Week Scotland is a week-long celebration of books and reading that takes place every November. …

Book Week Scotland, 23 – 29 November 2015

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