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Olga Wojtas: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar

January 19, 2018 By ip4r Leave a Comment

Olga Wojtas: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar

On Wednesday this week the top floor of Waterstones filled for the launch of Olga Wojtas’ debut novel Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar. The Jem Flockhart series author Elaine Thomson introduces her, having met her at a writing class several years ago, and while listing Olga’s various accomplishments she laughs that she can’t believe she … [Read more...] about Olga Wojtas: Miss Blaine’s Prefect and the Golden Samovar

EdBookFest 2017: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon

August 28, 2017 By ip4r Leave a Comment

EdBookFest 2017: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon

This event was clearly highly anticipated. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Nicola Sturgeon are welcomed to the stage with the loudest, and longest, cheer I’ve ever heard at the book festival. It appears they have both been anticipating the moment too. The first words out of Sturgeon’s mouth are ‘I am beyond excited right now’. Adichie is an author … [Read more...] about EdBookFest 2017: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Nicola Sturgeon

EdBookFest 2017: Jeremy Paxman

August 26, 2017 By ip4r Leave a Comment

EdBookFest 2017: Jeremy Paxman

Chair Ruth Wishart has a sharp and fearsome mind herself but she begins by stating that she has the ‘great and daunting’ pleasure of interviewing Jeremy Paxman for the next hour. Paxman is certainly someone few would enjoy being interviewed by and has spent a decent amount of his career on television repeating unanswered questions and wondering … [Read more...] about EdBookFest 2017: Jeremy Paxman

EdBookFest 2017: Val McDermid

August 24, 2017 By ip4r Leave a Comment

EdBookFest 2017: Val McDermid

Val McDermid, Photograph courtesy of © Antonia Reeve Scotland’s queen of crime needs very little introduction, as chair Daniel Gray said: ‘Val is Val’. She will always write books that frighten and excite, and in his case voice squawks on the bus that make other passengers shift away. He wonders if she is trying to give us all heart attacks but … [Read more...] about EdBookFest 2017: Val McDermid

EdBookFest 2017: Elif Shafak with Nicola Sturgeon and Heather McDaid

August 18, 2017 By ip4r Leave a Comment

EdBookFest 2017: Elif Shafak with Nicola Sturgeon and Heather McDaid

Heather McDaid, Elif Shafak & Nicola Sturgeon  Photograph courtesy of: © Antonia Reeve Turkish author Elif Shafak is one of this year’s Guest Selectors for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Across a series of events she has built a fascinating programme of discussions, including this afternoon’s discussion of life as a woman in the … [Read more...] about EdBookFest 2017: Elif Shafak with Nicola Sturgeon and Heather McDaid

EdBookFest 2017: Johan Norberg – Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

August 12, 2017 By ip4r Leave a Comment

EdBookFest 2017: Johan Norberg – Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

Johan Norberg’s book, Progress, with it’s appropriately sunshine yellow cover and smiling graph, is all about the tremendous progress the human race has made in recent decades. The past 200 years has seen more progress than the previous 200,000 and Norberg has gathered all of this into a book of reasons to be optimistic about the world. Chaired by … [Read more...] about EdBookFest 2017: Johan Norberg – Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

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