At the Edinburgh International Book Festival
From 9-25 August, Edinburgh's Charlotte Square Gardens will be filled with authors and readers for the International Book Festival. The London Review of Books is delighted to be sponsoring this year's signing tent, which will welcome, among many others, Tariq Ali, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Tony Benn, Patrick Cockburn, Stefan Collini, Janice Galloway, Misha Glenny, James Kelman, A.L. Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, James Meek, Don Paterson, Martin Rowson, Salman Rushdie, Will Self, Richard Sennett, Alan Sillitoe and Ali Smith.
Here's a selection of just a very few of the titles that are being talked about during the festival.
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£10.00
The Bridge
For centuries, Istanbul’s Galata Bridge has been the link between the conservative old city and the far more cosmopolitan northern district of merchants and embassies, increasingly permeated by the spirit of the West. Geert Mak introduces us to the city’s denizens and history, stressing the symbo... See details
£25.00
Common Reading
Stefan Collini continues his investigation into the British intellectual, that elusive figure some doubt ever to have existed. He focuses here on the 20th century critics and historians who wrote mainly for a non-specialist audience, including essays on Cyril Connolly, V.S. Pritchett, Aldous Huxl... See details
£8.99
Crow Country
Although the naturalist Mark Cocker has interesting things to say about all seven British crow species in his new book, it is in fact the rook (Corvus frugilegus) that is the chief object of his fascination. And in particular it is their massive roosts, sometimes comprising tens of thousan... See details
£7.99
Girl Meets Boy
Part of Canongate’s consistently interesting ‘Myths’ series, Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy is a retelling of one of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the story in which Iphis, a girl raised as a boy, falls in love with another girl. From its arresting opening line – ‘Let me tell you about when I was a gi... See details
£14.99
The Lazarus Project
Glyn Maxwell writes:
Stories. True stories, false stories, good stories, rotten stories. Everything in Hemon’s beautiful new novel trembles within this matrix, where a story’s force or charm is at least as significant as its veracity. Take that diamond of a title: one of the most ast...
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£20.00
Mad, Bad and Sad
Lisa Appignanesi’s disquieting history of how women have been treated (or more usually mistreated) by the mental health profession offers a series of fascinating case histories, beginning with Mary Lamb and including Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. Male theories about the cau... See details
£20.00
McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers
Neal Ascherson writes:
It’s usually assumed that organised crime is a network of unqualified evil: murderous, recklessly greedy, the enemy of all human values and all hopes for better lives. Glenny’s book is a warning against such a simple view. No, big gangsters are not nice people:...
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Night Work
Philip Oltermann writes:
The opening scene of Night Work, Thomas Glavinic’s Viennese novel, recalls something Karl Kraus said about the city in 1914: Vienna was a ‘Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs’, an experimental station for the apocalypse. Jonas, Glavinic’s protagonist, g...
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope
Geoffrey Hawthorn writes:
Two years ago, in her list of ‘outposts of tyranny’, Condoleezza Rice included only one country in the Americas, Cuba. Chávez, already close to Cuba, has responded by supporting two more of those Rice deplored, Zimbabwe and Iran; has persuaded a fourth, Nort...
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