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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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