Kayus Bankole & Kei Miller: Edinburgh Book Festival
Kayus Bankole & Kei Miller: Outriders Africa from East to West Mon 31 Aug, 2020 11:30 – 12:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online As part of the Book Festival’s Outriders programme exploring the shifting landscapes of contemporary Africa, hear from award-winning writer Kei Miller, whose barnstorming latest poetry collection, In Nearby Bushes, was tipped […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival: Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway: The Human Need for Stories Tuesday 25 August, 2020 16:00 – 17:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online As one of the most beloved public thinkers of our times, Richard Holloway has often given voice to the deep feelings and concerns that so many of us struggle to articulate clearly. […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival – Kirstin Innes: Who is Clio Campbell?
Friday 21 August, 2020 16:00 – 17:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Rarely does a novel set the Scottish literary scene abuzz in the way Scabby Queen has, counting amongst its fans figures as wide-ranging as Janice Galloway, Ian Rankin and Nicola Sturgeon. Sexy rock starlet, veteran political activist, symbol of a nation […]
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Friday, August 21, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Edinburgh Book Festival, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Edinburgh Book Festival James Tait Black Prizes
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH EVENT Friday 21 August, 2020 14:30 – 15:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by The UK’s longest-running literary prizes are awarded in this special event with broadcaster Sally Magnusson, who hosts a joyous celebration of the year’s best works of fiction and biography. On the 2020 […]
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Uganda’s First Woman of Fiction
Edinburgh Book Festival Online Wed 19 August, 2020 14:30 – 15:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online CAPTIONED EVENT Sponsored by Ugandan short story writer and novelist Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi burst onto the scene when she won The Kwani? Manuscript Project in 2013 with her first novel Kintu. Since then, she’s garnered legions […]
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Edinburgh Book Festival, Zoom and online events
Marian Keyes – Edinburgh Book Festival Online
Marian Keyes: Family Matters Wed 19 August, 2020 19:00 – 20:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Captioned event. 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 […]
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Monday, August 17, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Edinburgh Book Festival, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Zoom and online events
Philippe Sands with Ian Rankin: On the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
Edinburgh Book Festival Online 2020 Tuesday 18 August, 2020 19:00 – 20:00 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Philippe Sands’s much celebrated memoir East West Street, which won the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize, expertly interwove the personal story of his ancestors in the Ukrainian city of Lviv with a professional interest in the establishment […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Online: THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE EVENT
Mon 17 August, 2020 14:30 – 15:30 Michele Hutchison & Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: Reap What You Sow The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by ‘Great art doesn’t just reinforce or reassure: the authors we love challenge us; they illuminate new perspectives, make us question our certainties. They discomfort us.’ From its […]
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Get Adventurous with Lily Dyu & Helen Skelton
Edinburgh Book Festival Tuesday 18 August, 2020 16:00 – 17:00 Baillie Gifford Children’s Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by AGE 8+ Would you like to race across mountains, fly into space or journey to Antarctica? Well, why don’t you? In this live event you’ll be inspired to get active and get adventurous after hearing the […]
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Val McDermid – Portrait of a Criminal
Edinburgh Book Festival Online Sat 15 Aug, 2020 17:30 – 18:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Captioned and BSL interpreter viewing options. Use the toggle on the videoplayer page to choose which version to watch. BSLEvent With Val McDermid’s iconic detective soon set to hit our screens, it couldn’t be a […]
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Friday, August 14, 2020 | Filed under: Books, Talks, Poetry and Creative Writing Events, Edinburgh Book Festival, Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more, Zoom and online events
Stuart Cosgrove ‘The Soul of Muhammad Ali’
Edinburgh Book Festival Monday 17 August, 2020 11:30 – 12:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Following on from his acclaimed Soul Trilogy about the American soul music scene in the 1960s, much-loved Scottish broadcaster and writer Stuart Cosgrove returns to the American post-war era with his highly topical new book. In Cassius […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival The New York Times Book Review Live
THE NEW YORK TIMES SERIES Sunday 16 August, 2020 17:30 – 18:30 The New York Times Main Theatre Online Free, online Sponsored by ‘There is an intimacy to reading: it’s just us and the author; our subjective response and their generous, imaginative understanding of a world that we share but may struggle to articulate. Yet […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Books for Sale
Bookshop is Now Online The Edinburgh International Book Festival Bookshop is now open for business! The Bookshop offers titles from every author in the 2020 programme and showcases a range of books from Scottish publishers. You can search by genre and title and also browse by events in the programme, making it easy to find the […]
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Edinburgh Book Festival Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt
Sat 15 Aug, 2020 10:00 – 10:50 Gruffalos, Conjurors and Teeny Weeny Genies with Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and Nick Sharratt Baillie Gifford Children’s Theatre Online Free, online In the first of two bumper Book Festival shows from the award-winning author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson treats you to some lively storytelling from her magical book, The Teeny Weeny […]
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