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BOOK FESTIVAL – Margaret Atwood & Neil Gaiman 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
“This is where it ends,” says Neil Gaiman, taking to the stage with Margaret Atwood on the last evening of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. As guest selectors, tonight marks the last of the...
EVENT – Lion King Exhibition, City Art Centre from 28th September 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 03:42 pm
Explore the inspiration behind Disney’s Musical ‘The Lion King’ at a unique free exhibition in Edinburgh Picture courtesy of Edinburgh Council From Saturday 28th September, Edinburgh’s City Art Cent...
BOOK FESTIVAL – Horror & Weirdness, A Scottish Peculiarity 27 Aug 2013 | 11:28 am
“Is it because half of the year it’s very dark?” asks Margaret Atwood, wondering what it is about Scotland which seems to draw its writers to the sinister and supernatural. “With nothing but whisky,”...
BOOK FESTIVAL – Neil Gaiman – Sandman 26 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
Neil Gaiman is relieved. After being on tour for several months, the one topic he’s not been asked about so far is Sandman. Tonight of course, that all changes. Fellow graphic novelist Hannah Berry c...
FRINGE REVIEW – Arcadia 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
By Veronkia Kallus Arcadia is a multi-layered piece of writing by Tom Stoppard – maybe the most intriguing play of our times by one of the most distinguished playwrights. Published and first performe...
FRINGE REVIEW – Emilie Autumn 26 Aug 2013 | 02:39 pm
By Veronika Kallus Gorgeous. Beautiful outfits, superb choreography, haunting melodies, all arranged on a stage that could be a pirate ship. Or a wayward asylum, as the lyrics and the storyline sugge...
BOOK FESTIVAL – Writing Under The Influence 26 Aug 2013 | 01:38 pm
“You’ve just been curated!” So says Margaret Atwood to Granta Best Young British Novelist Naomi Alderman and multi-award winning Valerie Martin, as host of Writing Under The Influence, one of several...
BOOK FESTIVAL – A Celebration of Iain Banks 26 Aug 2013 | 12:03 pm
The Edinburgh book sculptor's tribute to Iain Banks Tonight, everyone in the packed main tent of the Edinburgh International Book Festival felt like a friend of the late Iain Banks — whether they’d m...
BOOK FESTIVAL – Bryan Talbot & Mary Talbot 26 Aug 2013 | 10:54 am
As a respected and published academic, Mary Talbot is now — as she puts it — “slumming it” with her husband, legendary British comics creator Bryan Talbot. It’s fortunate then that their first collab...
FRINGE REVIEW – Long Live The Little Knife 25 Aug 2013 | 09:14 pm
By Danielle Farrow David Leddy’s tale of grifters, brothels, mediumship, exploitation and castration – set up as related to him in a pub by two drunken scam artists – plays with fakery and reality, t...
