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Robert Burns: Not In My Name reclaims Scottish bard from tourism
27 Jul 2011
Kevin Williamson on Burns' radical poetry to Edinburgh Festival 2011
So, you think you know Robert Burns, eh? Tartan-edged poetry for shortbread tins and corporate haggis suppers? Well, Kevin Williamson, founder of 90s publishing punks Rebel Inc (Children of Albion Rovers) has decided to change your mind. His new…
Havers and Blethers brings new spoken-word show to Edinburgh
16 Aug 2010
Daily show features writers, poets, actors and musicians
One of the great things about this time of year is the number of off-Fringe festivals that spring up, like this daily spoken-word-based show, hosted by Kirsty-Jacqueline Lingard and featuring writers, poets, actors and musicians performing short…
Andrew O'Hagan's novel looks set to be turned into a feature film
5 Aug 2010
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, And of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, And of His Friend Marilyn Monroe is not your run-of-the-mill contemporary novel, and not just because the eponymous first-person narrator is an aristocratic Maltese terrier with Trotskyist tendencies, owned by the…
Frank Gardner
20 Aug 2009
A travel journalist like no other
Frank Gardner is not your average two-weeks-by-a-pool-in-Majorca kind of fella. Words like ‘wanderlust’ and ‘globetrotter’ don’t really do justice to a life spent doing what the BBC Security Correspondent describes as ‘epically hard travelling’.
