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Edinburgh International book Festival

Every year we bring readers and writers together in unique ways. Here we feature a range of writers from leading novelists to debut authors and we will keep adding names to the list in the coming months along with any related material we think you’ll find interesting. Some of the writers will be appearing in events in our programme, some will offer exclusive new work, podcasts or event recordings. Keep checking in for updates or sign up for our regular ebulletins.

Featured Writer

Louise Welsh

Glasgow-based writer with beautifully dark works.

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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.

More new writing...

Horror Story by Kirstin Innes

The hotel felt like a place where bad things had happened, she’d decided. Something chilling about the uniformity of its too-long Soviet-functional corridors, their flickering lights.