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Here, in FringeGuru's columns and blogs, our reviewers and correspondents share the news and gossip from across the Festival city.



 
John Burnside and Don Paterson
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Saturday, 29 August 2009

In the Peppers Theatre, John Burnside and Don Paterson, both Fifers and currently at St Andrews, are reading from their distinct poetry. The event is chaired by Brian Johnstone, director of the StAnza festival and owner of a glorious moustache.

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William Boyd
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Friday, 28 August 2009

Waiting in the novelty igloo to see if I've been granted a William Boyd press ticket, I happen to meet someone from BBC Scotland who lived just a few kilometers from my hometown in Canada. As we expound on the hospitality and wild beauty of the Maritime provinces, I'm gifted with the golden ticket, and walk to the RBS Main Tent with a couple of minutes to spare.

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Alice Albinia and Justine Hardy
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Friday, 28 August 2009

Perhaps it's the combination of extreme beauty and violence which add to the allure of some landscapes. This is true in the case of Kashmir and the Indus region, the settings for Justine Hardy and Alice Albinia's books respectively.

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Human Rights
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Friday, 28 August 2009

I'm in the Scottish Power Studio Theatre, talking with another of the press pod inhabitants about Moscow and waiting for the lights to dim.

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Suhayl Saadi and Rana Dasgupta
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Friday, 28 August 2009

I'm beginning to warm to the Writer's Retreat. Today it seems friendly and intimate, a great venue to hear Rana Dasgupta and Suhayl Saadi present their second novels.

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Lucy Popescu and Patrick Richardson
Miriam Vaswani's Book Club
Thursday, 27 August 2009

The end of the festival is approaching, and there has been shift in the atmosphere in Charlotte Square. Extra journalists have arrived for the last few days of August, and the photographers seem a bit frantic.

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About our columns

Richard Stamp

Co-founder of FringeGuru and self-confessed Festival addict, Richard Stamp came to Edinburgh on a six-month assignment and never quite got round to moving back.

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Miriam Vaswani

For Miriam, the last year has been all about leaving her home of 7 years in Glasgow, backpacking around Asia, and blogging compulsively.  She's now on a voyage of equal discovery at this year's Book Festival.

Miriam Vaswani's Book Club >>

Woodstock Taylor 

Musician, writer and broadcaster Woodstock Taylor has an association with the Edinburgh Fringe dating back over 30 years. In this blog, she chronicles the meanderings of a veteran Fringe-goer.

Woodstock Taylor's Festival >>