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52 Books: Bout of Books Read-a-Thon 8.0 19 Aug 2013 | 01:29 am
BookTube is a big fan of read-a-thons. There was Bout of Books 7.0 earlier this year, followed by the 30 day read and "official" BookTube-a-thon over the past 2 months. Each time a read-a-thon has co...
Nate Silver at Edinburgh International Book Festival 18 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
On Tuesday morning, the day of his sold-out event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Nate Silver was on the front page of the Scotsman newspaper. A demonstration of his influences as a poli...
Patrick Ness at Edinburgh International Book Festival 15 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
Image by Karyn Dougan The wonderful time of year has returned where Charlotte Square Gardens is transformed into a tented haven filled with fellow book lovers. This year I was by the gate before it ...
52 Books: July Reads 3 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
July has been a busy month, and one of lots of little reads. What have you been reading this summer? Why I Write by George Orwell It's about time, right? I picked this up to read 'Why I Write' and ...
Interview: Alex Gibney on We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks 9 Jul 2013 | 02:42 pm
“The film is about secrets. Who keeps them, who tries to expose them," said Alex Gibney ahead of the UK premiere of the hotly anticipated We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. "Also, unexpected ....
Interview: Jeanie Finlay & The Great Hip Hop Hoax 8 Jul 2013 | 04:44 pm
Documentary maker Jeanie Finlay's outrageous new feature, The Great Hip Hop Hoax, is touring the UK. She tells me about "the lies behind the lies behind the lies" behind Silibil ‘N Brains – the fakers...
Interview: Scott Clark talks Animation & Monsters University 8 Jul 2013 | 02:35 pm
Disney•Pixar films have been opening at Edinburgh International Film Festival for many years now. From Ratatouille to Wall-E and Toy Story 3 to Brave, Monsters University now continues the tradition o...
Radio Reviews: The East, This is the End, Stories We Tell 2 Jul 2013 | 11:33 pm
This week I reviewed some of the latest releases on The Culture Studio, BBC Radio Scotland, alongside Janice Forsyth and Eddie Harrison. We reviewed The East, This is the End, Stories We Tell, and Th...
Interview: Jennifer Steinman on Desert Runners 1 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
The RacingThePlanet’s 4Desert Ultramarathon Series is an extreme running challenge – the hardest of its kind in the world. It comprises of four 250km races across the Atcama Desert in Chile (the world...
52 Books: June Reads 1 Jul 2013 | 01:00 pm
With work to round-off in the first two weeks of June and EIFF in full swing in the final fortnight, June is never much of a reading month for me. Despite that, I did manage to finish a handful of bo...
