Tag Archive | "book festival"

World’s biggest book festival unveils this year’s programme

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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This morning marked one of the most important dates in the Edinburgh (and indeed Scottish and British and world-wide) literary calendars – the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the world’s largest celebration of the wonder of books, unveiled the programme for this year. In August, as the Scottish capital is bursting to the seams with the [...]

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Bilal at the Saint-Etienne book festival

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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French media site Culturebox has a short video up talking to the great Enki Bilal about being the master of ceremonies at the Saint-Etienne book festival. It’s in French, naturellement, so not much use if you don’t have much of a grasp of the language (must confess I struggled with my rusty French) but hey, [...]

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Bell, Trudeau and Rowson at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

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(Garry Trudeau being supplied with beer by Steve Bell at the signing after an extremely well attended talk at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday evening) Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Steve Bell in conversation with the celebrated cartoonist and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Despite irregular [...]

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Books! Comics! Writers! Artists! Readers! The Edinburgh Book Fest begins!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Edinburgh is already heaving with the Fringe well underway – August is Festival time and a city already awash with global tourists are joined by legions of Festival goers, almost doubling the population. Today another major festival landmark begins as our friends in the 2010 Edinburgh International Book Festival open proceedings (excellent YA fantasy author [...]

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Oxfam comics gig

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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A whole set of photos is up on specchum’s Flickr page from the weekend’s Oxfam comics event in Edinburgh, part of the Oxfam book festival.  Taking part in the proceedings for the charity were Frank Quitely, Gordon Rennie, Ferg Handley, David Bishop, John Ross, Morris Heggie, George Low and John McShane. (pics are (c) specchum, [...]

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Frank Quitely at the West Port Book Festival

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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Acclaimed Scottish comics artist Frank Quitely was the surprise guest at the the recent West Port Book Festival, a series of literary events which took place in indpendent and second hand bookstores in Edinburgh, held several weeks ahead of the Edinburgh International Book Festival (the behemoth of Scottish literary fests). Frank was in conversation with [...]

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Tank Girl at Oxfam

Thursday, July 2, 2009

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As part of the charity Oxfam’s Book Festival some of the comics crew, including Rufus Dayglo, will be doing their bit for a very good cause: “As part of the inaugrual Book Fest for Oxfam, Rufus Dayglo and friends will be signing copies of 2000AD, The Megazine and IDW’s Tank Girl to raise funds and [...]

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