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Swing Hammer Swing! - Jeff Torrington (1992)

1 Jan 2005

A confession: it took me what I now regard as a wastefully long time to get around to reading Swing Hammer Swing!; wastefully because I would probably have managed to read what became my favourite Scottish novel several more times had I not been so…

The Dear Green Place - Archie Hind (1966)

1 Jan 2005

There are two kinds of books in this list: great fiction by people who happen to come from Scotland, and great fiction influenced by and composed with Scotland in mind. The Dear Green Place is perhaps the best example of the latter. From renditions of…

The New Testament in Scots - trans. William Laughton Lorimer (1983)

1 Jan 2005

When the Scots Reformers adopted an English translation of the Bible, a serious blow was dealt to the status of the Scots language which was increasingly banished from the realms of learning and official culture it had occupied since the Middle Ages.

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith (1776)

1 Jan 2005

Margaret Thatcher, it is said, used to carry a copy of The Wealth of Nations in her handbag. It's an apocryphal story but highlights the fact that the deregulation of the 1980s was often undertaken in Adam Smith's name. Yet reading it today, 229 years…

Simon Hoggart

Simon Hoggart

edfest.tv - video

26 Aug 2008

Simon Hoggart talks about his new book The Hands of History with tales about Tony Blair, John Prescott, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Also Published - 5 Football Books

21 Aug 2008

Lou Macari - Football: My Life The former Celtic and West Ham manager tells of a controversial and tragic life in and out of the game. Bantam . Giles Smith - We Need to Talk About Kevin Keegan Subtitled ‘A Bumper Book of Football Writing’, this…

Hardeep Sing Kohli

Hardeep Sing Kohli

21 Aug 2008

As multi-tasking multi-media cultural polymaths go, writer, cook, broadcaster, columnist and all-round top bloke Hardeep Singh Kohli is pretty much up there in the can do stakes. Taking a short interlude from waxing lyrical in the papers or throwing in…

Rick Wakeman

Top 5 - Tories

21 Aug 2008

Rick Wakeman He might be a cast member of the Grumpy Old Men but simply mention the word ‘conservative’ and the Yes man lights up. He even performed a gig in 2004 to raise funds for the party. Rock’n’roll eh? 22 Aug, 6.30pm, £9 (£7) . Ffion Hague…

Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk

edfest.tv - video

19 Aug 2008

A very special visit from the States by famed literary provocateur and creator of Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk. Here he talks about his book, Snuff, the story of an ageing porn actress trying to have sex with 600 men in a single film.

The Silence at the Song's End

Libby Purves

edfest.tv - video

18 Aug 2008

Award winning novelist Libby Purves appears at this year's Book Festival talking about her late son's book The Silence at the Song's End.

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