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    Val McDermid: A Life in Writing

    Monday 21 August 17:00 - 18:00

    Val McDermid: A Life in Writing Book
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    As the Book Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary, Val McDermid talks to Peggy Hughes about her work, and looks back over key events in her life as a writer, exploring the ways in which they have sparked her fiction. Alongside McDermid’s...
     

    The Booker Prizes: Book of the Month

    Friday 25 August 12:30 - 13:30

    The Booker Prizes: Book of the Month Book
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    ‘How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,’ says Fleur Talbot, Muriel Spark’s heroine in Loitering with Intent. In this Festival edition of the Booker Prizes' Book of the Month series, Sparkophiles, including Jackie Kay...
     

    Val McDermid

    Wednesday 11 October 19:00 - 20:00

    Val McDermid Book
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    The publication of a Val McDermid novel is always an event, and a new addition to the Karen Pirie series may just top them all. This time, DCI Pirie is investigating the disappearance of Lara Hardie, a University of Edinburgh student who vanished from...