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Edinburgh Book Festival 2024: Regenerative Futures

Regenerative Futures Fund: The importance of technology in all that we do For more information please contact the Regenerative Futures Fund [Any text in square brackets in this article is an editorial comment] I normally write my pieces on my smartphone, – very easy to do.  I can type away, and no one knows what …

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Edinburgh Book Festival 2024: A small review by Christopher Condie

Empty streets 9:30am on a Wednesday morning, bright and clear and fresh and having just devoured a ‘Bao’ for breakfast (yeah, I didn’t know what that was either) the book festival was waiting. I watched as the early morning crowd of mums convoyed over the cobble streets with pushchairs and babies and thermal coffee mugs. …

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Greta withdraws – storm in a tea cup as 50 book festival authors threaten not to take part in Edinburgh Book Fest next year.

This is as a result of recent environmental disasters in Hawaii that are part of a series of such events occurring this summer. FREQUENT disaster occurrences have led to many anxious concerns and feelings of hopelessness  about the forecast impact of climate change.  Meanwhile, prominent climate activist Mikaela Loach from the UK suggests that we should …

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Super 7 Booker Long List writer events at International Book Festival

Edinburgh International Book Festival Weekend Goodies! We’ve got some electrifying book buzz for you! Last week, the  judges  over at the Booker Prizes unveiled their dazzling longlist for this year’s much-awaited Booker Prize.  A rollercoaster of literary genius, featuring the most mind-bending, heartstring-tugging, and audacious books of the year. Out of the sensational 13 authors …

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Ready, Steady Go the EIBF 40 year book festival starts tomorrow

It is ready, steady and go for a literary extravaganza as the curtains rise on the Edinburgh International Book Festival this weekend! The stage is set for an electrifying journey from August 12th to 28th, where   writers, authors , visionary thinkers, and captivating performers from all over the world will converge at the enchanting …

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Edinburgh Book Festival – Red or Blue Wall and Family issues in the USA – Fiction

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Edinburgh International Book Festival a Grrrrr-eat and Monster start on their opening Saturday

Saturday saw the opening of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.   Some lucky children were fortunate enough to meet up with a certain grrrrruff friend!  That is Gruffalo a character invented for children to enjoy by Julia Donaldson.   Julia conjured up the idea of the Monster’s name to end in O so that it would …

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Sunday at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Image above is a fond memory of the 2017 Edinburgh Book Festival in Charlotte Square,.  A different world to the one of 2021.  A freer COVID19 free event, packed with live audiences and visitors to the gardens in the Square. All enjoying the sun and the atmosphere of the great literary celebs. This year they are …

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Stagecoach change bus timetables across Scotland tomorrow

Coronavirus (COVID-19) further update from Wed 1 April 2020  Following further government advice regarding non-essential travel to combat COVID-19, we’ve seen a further reduction in passengers using our services. Accordingly, we will make some further changes to the services we offer from Wednesday 1st April. We understand that travel on our services will still remain …

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Kirk Suspends Church Meetings – Corona Virus Covid 19

As we all know there is a guideline issued by the Scottish Government not to attend busy places and this applies to everyone. You will see from the guidelines that religious meetings are also included. Therefore, the Church of Scotland have issued advice to all local churches not to have regular church meetings and services …

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