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Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlisters

Booktrust Teenage Prize shortlist announced

Thursday 9 September

The 2010 Book Festival RBS Children’s Programme welcomed many terrific children's authors, including Sarra Manning, Marcus Sedgwick and Gregory Hughes, whose names were yesterday announced on the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010 shortlist.

Emma Donoghue

Booker Prize shortlist announced

Tuesday 7 September

The Book Festival welcomed 10 of the 13 Booker Prize longlisters last month, and now we are delighted to congratulate newly-announced Booker Prize shortlisters Emma Donoghue, Howard Jacobson, Andrea Levy and Tom McCarthy, each of whom delivered...

Edwin Morgan tribute event

Public programme closes with a moving tribute to our Scottish Makar

Tuesday 31 August

The 2010 Book Festival has featured over 750 participants from 50 countries, culminating fittingly in a moving  tribute to Edwin Morgan

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New Writing

In a major new departure for the Book Festival, fifty authors are being commissioned to write short stories or essays, all on the theme of ‘Elsewhere’. We have chosen leading writers from across the world and each will be producing work through 2010 and 2011 which is available for you to read and listen to here, exclusively on our website.

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Ali Smith by Sarah Wood

The art of elsewhere by Ali Smith

I’ve been trying to go elsewhere all my life...

Jason Donald

Puerto Galera by Jason Donald

Rudi’s Bar sold the cheapest San Miguel on Sabang beach. Their fried rice was half decent and the barmaid was perkier than a kiddies’ TV presenter...

Miguel Syjuco

Be Here Now by Miguel Syjuco

It’s exciting to get to know your new kitchen and its appliances...

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2010 Programme

2010 Programme

Hundreds of events for adults and children including topical panel debates, creative workshops, lively author interviews and readings and all the information you need to know about the Festival.

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2010 Programme

2010 RBS Schools Programme

Author events and workshops created especially for primary and secondary schools and CPD events for teachers along with ideas for related classroom activities.

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Audio Listings

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (2010 event)

We are delighted to offer you a chance to listen to celebrated Irish poet......

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Joseph Stiglitz (2010 event)

A 2010 Book Festival event that will be talked about for some time to......

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Video

Master storyteller Salman Rushdie returned to the Book Festival in 2008 to talk about his sumptuous new novel The Enchantress of Florence with Ramona Koval. This is a short extract filmed live at the sold-out event where he describes the influences on...

Salman Rushdie

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