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As Janice Galloway strode onstage in a flamboyant pink and black '50s dress and winked at the audien...
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What impresses most on hearing Will Self talk for an hour is the man's ability to maintain his sardo...
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This year the International Book Festival have pulled off a coup, stealing Mark Watson from the funn...
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Jenni Murray's new book, Memoirs of a not so dutiful daughter, tells of her turbulent relationship w...
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If you don't know the writing of Chuck Palahniuk, you should, you're missing out. His writing is dar...
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The much-loved grand master of the weird and the other-worldly, Iain (sometimes, ‘M'...) Banks...
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The hero of the ‘Tartan Noir' returned to the Book Festival this year looking beyond the maver...
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The self-confessed ‘second drunkest man in the drunkest band in the world' has traded in his r...
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Food and theatre are vastly more linked than one would think as celebrated actor, director and autho...
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Tony Parsons is clearly enamoured with Asia. He's set his latest novel, My Favourite Wife in China w...
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- “Hands up who's read one of my books?” asks Colfer to a full house on the first day of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. The response is about 80% to which the retort is that &lsq...
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- If getting lost in a good book is your style, Mark Fisher brings you a selection of the best authors who'll be visiting this August, from Louis de Bernieres to Sir Sean Connery
TARIQ ALI IN CONVERS...
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- Mary, Queen of Scots was a much-misunderstood monarch, says author Philippa Gregory
A FLAME-HAIRED femme fatale or a romantic fool doomed to die tragically because she loved not wisely but too well...
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- Try not to faint; Chuck Palahniuk's readings have been known to bring audience members to their knees
Let's hope the smelling salts are close at hand during Chuck Palahniuk's Book Festival appearan...
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- Charlie Higson's young Bond books have given a whole new lease of life to Ian Fleming's creation. He tells us why the spy is so appealing to younger readers
It's impossible to escape the fact that ...
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- Louise Rennison feels lucky to think like a 14-year-old girl. Just don't let her speak to any American investors ...
It's no surprise that Louise Rennison has been so successful at creating the fun...
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- Bestselling author Tony Parsons made his name writing warm stories about modern manhood in London, but researching his latest novel took him much farther afield
Tony Parsons' years as a journalist ...
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- Once the wild boy of Britpop, Alex James would far rather slip on his wellies and spend a bit of time with his cheese.
A few years ago, it would have seemed unlikely that a conversation with Blur b...
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