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Prolific young Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo to talk at the 2012 Book Festival
9 Aug 2012
Looking to a future beyond books
Chibundu Onuzo’s tale is a heartening one for young writers. The Nigerian-born author began her first novel when she was just 17 and secured a two-book deal with Faber at 19, before being published at 21. Her debut, The Spider King’s Daughter, follows…
Scotland's Toni Davidson speaks at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2012
2 Aug 2012
‘I wrote in huts, by the beach, in hotel lobbies, in train stations’
Scotland’s Toni Davidson is a self-confessed ‘slow writer’. In 1999, his debut Scar Culture was acclaimed for its innovative and unflinching portrayal of child abuse. And though there was the short story collection The Gradual Gathering of Lust in 2007...
David Almond
19 Aug 2011
Crossing the divide from children’s books to adult fiction
Since penning his first children’s novel, 1998’s Whitbread Award and Carnegie Medal-winning Skellig, David Almond has been lauded as one of the UK’s greatest authors for younger readers. In 2010, the Skellig prequel, My Name is Mina, had critics falling…
Meg Rosoff, John Green, Tohby Riddle and Cathy Cassidy at the Edinburgh Book Festival
15 Jul 2010
Writers doing it for the big kids
Meg Rosoff might be known as a successful author for young adults, but it’s not necessarily a category with which she’s comfortable. ‘Recently, I re-read To Kill a Mockingbird for its 50th anniversary,’ she says. ‘If that was published now, it would be…
