So inspired, in fact, that they turned to a loveable rogues gallery of Sc… Val McDermid & Jo Sharp: Shaping a Better Future At last year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, bestselling author Val McDermid and professor of geography Jo Sharp were inspired by the festival theme, We Need New Stories. Yanis Varoufakis with Shami Chakrabarti (2018 Event) Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has written several influential books and has co-founded ‘DiEM25’, a pan-European progressive movement which will be competing in next year’s European parliament elections.
The Moth (2014 event) To celebrate the UK launch of their first book, which collects together 50 of their best stories, we invited The Moth, the legendary US storytelling organisation, to create a special one-off evening of stories inspired by our strand of events, Conversatio… In this event filmed live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival they launch the sequel, The Art of Dying… Our relationship with the internet is probably one which psychoanalysts …Īmbrose Parry (Chris Brookmye & Marisa Haetzman) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival Crime-writing duo Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman introduced the shadowy streets of 1840s Edinburgh in The Way of All Flesh last year. Roisin Kiberd & Lauren Oyler: Online and Disconnected The generation who were ‘raised by the internet’ are fully-fledged adults now, but the web has become a strange parent: a cold, detached being that knows everything about us. Lights Off The Quay, our first publication of new writing, is the result.
Lights Off The Quay - pt1 (A L Kennedy) We commissioned and published new stories and poems from four of the finest Scottish writers: A L Kennedy, Janice Galloway, John Burnside and Don Paterson. Currently Professor of English at Birkbeck College, Warner was also chair of the Man Booker International Prize jury in 2015. Marina Warner (2016 Event) Marina Warner's defining, shapeshifting presence in British literature finds new form in a book of short stories, Fly Away Home.
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