20th Edinburgh Independent and Radical Book Fair

Wednesday 26th - Sunday 30th October 2016
Various Times

Organised by Word Power Books, this alternative book festival will feature talks, film screenings plus a huge array of books for sale.

 

JAMES KELMAN opens the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair and reads from Dirt Road with live music from the The Dirt Roadsters
26/10/2016 19:00

Loud Poets present Rhyme Minister’s Questions at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
26/10/2016 21:00

ROB SEWELL discusses the latest edition of Leon Trotsky’s Stalin at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2016 16:45

SHIRLEY YOUNG and NATHAN GALE launch and discuss She, He, They: Families, Gender and Coping with Transition, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2016 18:00

YAKOV M. RABKIN discusses What is Modern Israel? at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2016 19:00

TAM DEAN BURN and MEAGHAN DELAHUNT read at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2016 20:15

ROBIN McALPINE discusses Determination: How Scotland Can Become Iindependent by 2021, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
27/10/2016 20:30

Teen Titles event with LARI DON at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2016 11:00

FILM SCREENING – Every Cook Can Govern: The life, impact & works of C.L.R. James, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2016 15:00

Writing Politics: An Event with IRISH PAGES at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2016 18:00

CONOR McCARTHY and KIRSTY LUSK discuss James Connolly: Revolutionary and Anti-imperialist, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2016 20:00

RICHARD MURPHY, LESLEY RIDDOCH and ANDY WIGHTMAN discuss Creating a Just Scotland: Transforming Our Land and Taxation Policies, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 10:00

LUKE HARDING discusses Putin’s Polonium Plot at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 12:30

KAT BANYARD discusses Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 14:00

IAN COBAIN, author of The History Thieves, and LUKE HARDING, author of A Very Expensive Poison, in conversation at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 15:30

OWEN HATHERLEY discusses his latest book, The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 17:00

CHERRY STYLES launches Gut Flora: A Chapess Zine Collection, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 18:30

MIKE SMALL and SIMON BARROW facilitate a panel discussion for the launch of Scotland 2021, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 19:30

Book launch of Aiblins: New Scottish Political Poetry, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2016 20:45

ROBBIE NICOL and KATE RAWLES discuss climate change by Canoe, Sea Kayak and Bike, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2016 10:45

EM STRANG launches her poetry collection, Bird-Woman, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2016 12:15

STUART COSGROVE discusses Detroit 67 and Young Soul Rebels, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2016 13:00

PAUL MacALINDIN discusses Upbeat: The Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2016 14:30

MADELEINE BUNTING in conversation with RICHARD HOLLOWAY, at the 20th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2016 16:00

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