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2025 Festival:
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2010 Book Festival Highlights

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernieres at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010

Ian Blair talking to Peter Guttridge
Keith Gray
Louis de Bernieres
Eli Horowitz
Garry Trudeau
Louis de Bernieres: Louis de Bernieres at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Interviewing Christos Tsiolkas |
  • Photographing James Robertson |
  • Jeanette Winterson |
  • Interviewing Ian Rankin |
  • Venue manager having a read |
  • the end of the Iain Banks booksigning |
  • David Vann and Willy Vlautin |
  • Lars Husum signing books |
  • Readers' First Book Award voting |
  • Gary Younge signing books |
  • Stormy weather |
  • Sunbathing between shows |
  • Creative workshop and collage |
  • Taking a break |
  • Sunbathing |
  • Soweto Gospel Choir on opening day |
  • Soweto Gospel Choir on opening day2 |
  • Beautiful sunny morning |
  • A novel chair from Inhouse |
  • Film crews |
  • Fay Weldon |
  • Making a mess |
  • A happy transaction |
  • Soweto Gospel Choir |
  • What to see? |
  • Children enjoying the seating |
  • Entrance to Book Festival |
  • Reading on the lawn |
  • Simon Callow |
  • RBS Children's Bookshop |
  • A wee sit-down in the bookshop |
  • Book Festival bookshop |
  • Rushing to get a good seat in the RBS Main Theatre |
  • Sunny garden |
  • Shade in the garden |
  • Creative workshop |
  • Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010 | Readers' First Book Award voting box at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
  • Shappi Khorsandi | Shappi Khorsandi at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Seamus Heaney | Seamus Heaney at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Prue Leith | Prue Leith at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Reading in the sun | Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Roddy Doyle | Roddy Doyle at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Vidal Sassoon | Vidal Sassoon at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Philip Ardagh | Philip Ardagh at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Will Self | Will Self at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Simon King | Simon King at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Gala Day | RBS Schools Gala Day at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2010
  • Quintin Jardine | Quintin Jardine at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • RBS Corner Theatre audience |
  • Show in progress | Outside the Highland Park Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Ruth Padel, Fatima Bhutto, Fay Weldon | Ruth Padel, Fatima Bhutto, Fay Weldon
  • Ryan Van Winkle | Ryan Van Winkle at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Joseph Stiglitz | Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz at Edinburgh Book Festival 2010
  • Mal Peet and Marcus Sedgewick | Mal Peet and Marcus Sedgewick at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Jackie Kay | Jackie Kay at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Mark Urban | Mark Urban at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Paul Muldoon | Paul Muldoon at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Jah Wobble | Jah Wobble at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Mark Beaumont | Mark Beaumont at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Marlene Van Neikerk and Kopano Matlwaat | Marlene Van Neikerk and Kopano Matlwaat Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Melvyn Bragg | Melvyn Bragg at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Nick Barley | Nick Barley at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Peter Mandelson | Peter Mandelson at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • King Creosote at Unbound Finale | King Creosote at Unbound Finale at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Masses of books in the Bookshop |
  • Ian Rankin in the gardens |
  • Ian Blair talking to Peter Guttridge | Ian Blair at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Keith Gray | Keith Gray at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Louis de Bernieres | Louis de Bernieres at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010
  • Eli Horowitz | Day 8 of the Book Festival and McSweeney's Eli Horowitz gets his head shaved at Unbound.
  • Garry Trudeau | Edinburgh Book Festival 2010
  • Deep in discussion | Edinburgh Book Festival 2010
  • Charlotte Square Gardens | Charlotte Square Gardens on a very sunny day
  • Children's Activity Corner | Children's Activity Corner at the back of the RBS Children's Bookshop
  • Christopher Brookmyre & Billie Franks | Performing togther at the 2010 Book Festival in Unbound.
  • Debi Gliori |
  • Fun in the Imagination Lab |
  • Nick Barley | Director of the Book Festival, Nick Barley
  • David Vann and Willy Vlautin |
  • Iain Banks |
  • Amnesty Imprisoned Writers Series | Day 8 of the Edinburgh Book Festival 2010 including events such as a talk by A C Grayling, McSweeneys at Unbound, and the discussion entitled Manifesto for culture
  • A spot of wet weather |
  • Brian Keenan |
  • Amartya Sen | The great nobel prize-winner signs books at the Book Festival following a sold-out event
  • Charlotte Square Gardens in the sun |
  • Alan Moore talks to Steve Bell |
  • Alistair Darling talking to Brian Taylor |
  • Book Festival Bookshop |
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