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Canongate launch series of monthly talks in Edinburgh

Canongate launch series of monthly talks

Canongate Talks speakers include David Byrne, Jonah Lehrer, David Shrigley and Richard Holloway

18 Apr 2012

Canongate Books are working in association with Waterstones to open a new series of monthly events in the capital called Canongate Talks. Each event will include leading writers and thinkers from science, literature, philosophy, psychology, arts and…

Books hitlist

Books hitlist

4 Nov 2009

Imprint A strong looking line-up for this East Ayrshire book festival with the likes of James Kelman, James Robertson and Jackie Kay in attendance. Various venues, Sat 7–14 Nov. James Ellroy Borders Books and GFT, Glasgow, Thu 5 Nov…

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood - The Year of the Flood

Author launches new work at Edinburgh Book Festival

2 Sep 2009

The Flood which Margaret Atwood brings to an already soggy Charlotte Square gardens is, in fact, a waterless one. It is not sent by a punitive, Old Testament God but rather by scientists of the near future playing Him. Two isolated women, Toby and…

Richard Holloway - Between the Monster and the Saint

Richard Holloway - Between the Monster and the Saint

(3 stars)14 Aug 2008

PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS (Canongate) Richard Holloway talks himself and us in and out of moral corners in this reflection upon the nature of good and evil and analyses their tug of war with intellectual ease. Beginning by contemplating the monster and…

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12 Feb 2007

Raj Persaud With a twinkle in his eye, the dapper broadcaster, author and psychiatrist entertains with talk about seduction. It’s fine, though, you can trust him, he’s a doctor. Fri 16 Feb, 6pm.

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