2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival

2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival

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2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival episodes

  • Gordon Brown (2014 event)

    Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown talks about his new bestseller My Scotland, Our Britain: A Future Worth Sharing. He is in dialogue with Alistair Moffat, author of Bannockburn and many other books dealing with the story of Scotland’s past. Recorded live at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

    1 hr 1 min
  • Maggie O'Farrell (2014 event)

    Instructions for a Heatwave was described by the Los Angeles Review of Books as ‘perhaps a perfect book’ – high praise indeed but typical of the acclaim that Edinburgh-based Maggie O’Farrell has attracted for her sixth novel. Full of unforgettable characters, the story charts a family descending into crisis against the backdrop of a stifling summer. In this event, recorded live at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Maggie O’Farrell talks about how she constructed her novel.

    51 min
  • George RR Martin (2014 event)

    It’s not too often that an author will so happily embrace the film or TV show adapted from his or her own fiction, but George R R Martin seems more than pleased with the screen adaptation of Game of Thrones. In this event, recorded live at the Edinburgh International Book Festival the author discusses how it feels to see the screen incarnations of his complex fictional universe.

    59 min
  • Alasdair Gray (2014 event)

    Of Me and Others is as close to Alasdair Gray’s autobiography as we are likely to get. Described by its editor Alistair Braidwood as ‘ribald, humorous, angry and incisive’, this new tome by one of Scotland’s literary superstars describes his meetings with authors such as Anthony Burgess, and explains how he went about writing his masterpiece Lanark and recent Faust adaptation, Fleck. Hear him talking to Ryan Van Winkle about his work at the Book Festival in this recording of his 2014 event.

    1 hr

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