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ED2011 BOOK EVENT FEATURES

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ED2011 BOOK EVENT REVIEWS

A L Kennedy - Who Is Lying And Who Is Being Lied To? A Memoir Of Teenage Years (Janice Galloway) A S Byatt - The Thin Girl And The Monstrous Myth Alan Warner - Sopranos Writer Does Trainspotting Alasdair Gray - A Life In Words And Pictures Alexander McCall Smith Andy McSmith & Dominic Sandbrook - The 70s And 80s, Britain's Revolution Audrey Niffenegger - A Magical Catalogue Of One Person And Her Books Barry Miles - The Counter-Cultural Revolution Bettany Hughes Cory Doctorow - Science Fiction Gets Uncannily Close To Reality Danny Dorling - The Information Superhighway And Those It Leaves Behind Darren Shan David Almond - Carnegie Medal-Winner Telling Stories For Adults David Lodge - Fictional Portrait Of A Legend Debate - The End Of Books? Debate - The End Of The State? Delving Beneath The Surface (Dermot Healy and Johanna Skibsrud) Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize Glimpse Into A Future Of Unnatural Existence (Philip Ball) Ian Rankin - Life After Rebus Keeps Getting Better Ian Thompson - Jules Verne, Lover Of Scotland Ilan Pappé - Sparking Life Into Ancient Histories Ingrid Betancourt With Kirsty Wark - A Tale Of Survival Against The Odds Is It Possible To Be 'Modern' And British At The Same Time? (Alexandra Harris & Kathleen Jones) James Joyce - Author Of The 20th Century (Gordon Bowker) Jasper Fforde - The Comic Crime Fantasy Genre Is In Safe Hands Joanne Limburg John Gray: How Human Ideas Changed The World John Harding And Michelle Paver - Ghosts, Are You Being Watched? John Hartson John Man Jon Ronson - Are The Corridors Of Power Packed With Psychopaths? Judith Flanders - When Murder Was An Honourable Practice Julian Petley And Robin Richardson - How The Press Fuels Myths About Islam Lin Anderson And Tony Black - Crime And The Fabric Of Edinburgh And Glasgow Lisa Appignanesi Marcus Sedgwick Morris Gleitzman And Jason Wallace Namings And Hauntings (Louise Welsh) Ned Beauman & Zoe Strachan - Boxing Clever In Two Masterful Novels Neil Gaiman with Audrey Niffenegger - Writing Without Boundaries Nothing But The Poem - Discovering Poetry Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts - The Strange Gaps In Our Geography Philosophers Who Get To The Core Of Being (Simon Blackburn And Robert Rowland Smith) Poems From Small Islands: Creating At Crear Poignant, Consuming Fiction (Mari Strachan & Gerard Woodward) Rachael Boast, Will Eaves & Ryan Van Winkle Reaching For The Stars (Dava Sobel) RJ Ellory - Intense, Compulsive, Gut-Wrenching Fiction Robert Douglas & Alison Irvine - First We Shaped Glasgow, Then It Shaped Us (Edinburgh International Book Festival / Newton First Book Award) Robin Robertson Salley Vickers - Can We Ever Really Know The Person We Love? Searching For The Secret Of Writing Fiction Again (Candia McWilliam) Ted Nield - Why We Should Learn To Love Meteorites The Joy Of Literature (Joseph Brooker And Ray Ryan) The Life Of Byron (Benjamin Markovits) The New Scottish Writing - How Fact And Fiction Influence Our Understanding Of Ourselves (Edinburgh International Book Festival / Open University) The Playful Search For Nabokov - Lila Azam Zanganeh The Rise Of Ebooks - How Will The Rise Of Ebooks Affect Writers And Their Work? (Peter Burns / Maggie McKernan / Nicola Solomon) True Genius, Strong Meat (Paul Muldoon) Unsettling Poetry And Unforgettable Fiction (John Burnside) War And Peace Over Tolstoy's Legacy (Rosamund Bartlett) Who Is Miles And Why Has He Locked Himself In? - Ali Smith Will Self - Psychogeography With A Stress On The Psycho (Edinburgh International Book Festival / The Folio Society) Writing Without Boundaries - Sci-Fi, Fantasy And Realism (Kelly Link With Audrey Niffenegger)