Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair 2015

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The 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair   –  the alternative international book festival – will take place from Wednesday 28th October to 1st November 2015 in Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 30-38 Dalmeny Street, Edinburgh, EH6 8RG, Scotland, UK. 

 

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EVENTS 

JIM SILLARS and IAIN MACWHIRTER discuss In Place of Failure and Tsunami, at the launch of the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair

28/10/2015 19:00

 

SCOTT CROW, author of Black Flags and Windmills, discusses creating power from below

28/10/2015 21:00

 

Introducing Teen Titles by school students followed by a creative writing workshop facilitated by NORA CHASLER

29/10/2015 13:30

 

Film screening of Imogen Sutton’s prize-winning documentary, Daughters of de Beauvoir

29/10/2015 16:00

 

NEIL DAVIDSON launches his latest book, We Cannot Escape History

29/10/2015 17:30

 

ALASTAIR MCINTOSH, author of Spiritual Activism, and MARK BOYLE, author of Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi, in conversation

29/10/2015 18:30

 

KATHLEEN JAMIE launches The Bonniest Companie, followed by a ceilidh, bar and stovies

29/10/2015 20:00

 

After the Rain Creative Writing Workshop with JENNIFER OGDEN,

30/10/2015 14:00

 

Documentary film screening of These Dangerous Women,

30/10/2015 16:00

 

ROSS WALKER discusses Strajk! Stories of Polish workers, a

30/10/2015 16:45

 

MURDO EASON discusses From Hill to Sea

30/10/2015 17:45

 

TENDAI HUCHU launches his novel, The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician

30/10/2015 18:45

 

The Bridge: A Play by ANNIE GEORGE

30/10/2015 20:30

Taking the Hard Road: Three Adventures on Two Wheels with ANNA HUGHES, KATE RAWLES and JULIAN SAYARER

31/10/2015 10:30

 

STUART MCHARDY discusses his latest book, Scotland’s Future History

31/10/2015 11:45

 

ROBIN TUDGE presents an illustrated talk on Travels in North Korea

31/10/2015 12:45

 

The Lure of Adventure and What It Offers Us with JAY GRIFFITHS, RED SZELL and MALACHY TALLACK

31/10/2015 14:00

LISA MCKENZIE discusses Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain

31/10/2015 15:30

 

TOM SPERLINGER, author of Romeo & Juliet in Palestine, in conversation with SARAH IRVING, author of Leila Khaled

31/10/2015 16:45

TESTA or MALATESTA discusses Militant Anti-Fascism: 100 Years of Resistance

31/10/2015 18:00

 

From the Oxford Bar to Helmand and Home Again with KARINE POLWART, CLAIRE LAMOND and R. L. McKINNEY

31/10/2015 19:15

 

MEAGHAN DELAHUNT launches Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories, at the

31/10/2015 20:30

 

ANDY WIGHTMAN and FI MARTYNOGA discuss The Treasures of Scotland’s Coastline

1/11/2015 10:45

 

JAY GRIFFITHS and SUE PALMER discuss Detoxing Childhood in the 21st Century

1/11/2015 12:15

 

BEN STEWART discusses The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty

1/11/2015 13:30

GULWALI PASSARLAY discusses The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey of Escape to a New Life in Britain

1/11/2015 14:45

 

TOM OVERTON speaks on John Berger: The Company of the Past, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair

1/11/2015 16:00