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Grant Morrison at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Monday, August 22, 2011

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(Grant Morrison in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at the weekend, all pics from my Flickr) This weekend I enjoyed a late evening literary bash at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Scots superstar comics scribe Grant Morrison took the stage in front of a packed audience, which, I’m delighted to note, had [...]

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Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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(Neil Gaiman and Audrey Niffenegger just before their event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival yesterday afternoon, all pics from my Flickr) On Wednesday I had the pleasure of seeing two excellent authors of both prose and comics works in conversation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as Neil Gaiman chatted to Audrey Niffenegger. It [...]

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Starting Tomorrow – Edinburgh Book Festival….

Friday, August 12, 2011

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It all starts in the morning…. and here’s a handy print out and keep list of the events – check the details for ticket availability….. Saturday 13th: Alasdair Gray – details. Monday 15th: Audrey Niffenegger – details. Wednesday 17th: Neil Gaiman with Audrey Niffenegger – details. (Not surprisingly, this one’s sold out) Friday 19th Aug: [...]

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Edinburgh Book Festival – the comic events….

Monday, August 8, 2011

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Oh, we forgot to do this this year – the annual roundup of the comic book related events at the Edinburgh Book Festival. Highlights obviously are the headliners – the twin threat of Morrison and Gaiman…. but if I were going, I’d make a beeline to hear Pat Mills talk to Rodge Glass about Dougie’s [...]

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Grant Morrison signing in FPI Glasgow tomorrow

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

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Don’t forget the brilliant Grant Morrison will be making his hometown signing for his new book Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero tomorrow in our Glasgow store (right by the Buchanan Street Underground) from 5 to 7.30pm. We’ve got piles of the books in from Jonathan Cape and having been treated to [...]

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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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More (and Moore) from the Edinburgh Book Festival

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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As well as the Martin Rowson and Garry Trudeau events with Steve Bell at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last week (see here) there were several other comics folk present at the world’s biggest literary fest, including Garen Ewing, Sarah McIntyre and oh yeah, there was some bloke called Alan Moore… It was a sold [...]

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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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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Moore, Trudeau, Bell, Banks and more

Friday, July 30, 2010

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August is all but upon us and in the city of Edinburgh that means the world’s largest arts festival is about to take off. The population of the city almost double between tourists, festival goers and performers on every corner and during two weeks of that month long circus of every conceivable kind of artform [...]

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Mark Millar at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Top Scottish comics (and now movie) scribe Mark Millar made his first ever appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and he seemed to enjoy the experience as much as the audience did (you can read my report here). Mark was on fine form talking with Scotland on Sunday’s Stuart Kelly (who’s also [...]

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Neil Gaiman, Denise Mina and Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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As regular readers will know I was lucky enough to be at the sold-out event with Neil Gaiman and Ian Rankin discussing writing comics and prose, chaired by Denise Mina, herself no stranger to writing for both prose and graphical fiction, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this summer, which was a terrific gig (see [...]

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Scotland’s most Wanted: Mark Millar kicks ass at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]

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Ian Rankin and Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh Book Fest

Friday, August 21, 2009

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Its summer in Scotland but last night you could almost mistake it for autumn – sunny, but cool and even evidence of chestnuts appearing on the trees. Still, a pleasant evening to walk towards Edinburgh’s elegant Georgian New Town (like the Old Town designated a UN World Heritage Site), bells pealing from the distinctive three-spired [...]

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