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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.
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...
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
The art of elsewhere by Ali Smith
I’ve been trying to go elsewhere all my life...
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...
Be Here Now by Miguel Syjuco
It’s exciting to get to know your new kitchen and its appliances...
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.
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.
Seamus Heaney (2010 event)
We are delighted to offer you a chance to listen to celebrated Irish poet......
Joseph Stiglitz (2010 event)
A 2010 Book Festival event that will be talked about for some time to......
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...
