19th Edinburgh Independent and Radical Book Fair

28th October - 1st November 2015
Various times

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

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, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
28/10/2015 21:00

Introducing Teen Titles by school students followed by a creative writing workshop facilitated by NORA CHASLER, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2015 13:30

Film screening of Imogen Sutton’s prize-winning documentary, Daughters of de Beauvoir, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2015 16:00

NEIL DAVIDSON launches his latest book, We Cannot Escape History, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2015 17:30

ALASTAIR MCINTOSH, author of Spiritual Activism, and MARK BOYLE, author of Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi, in conversation, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2015 18:30

KATHLEEN JAMIE launches The Bonniest Companie, followed by a ceilidh, bar and stovies, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
29/10/2015 20:00

After the Rain Creative Writing Workshop with JENNIFER OGDEN, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 14:00

Documentary film screening of These Dangerous Women, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 16:00

ROSS WALKER discusses Strajk! Stories of Polish workers, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 16:45

MURDO EASON discusses From Hill to Sea, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 17:45

TENDAI HUCHU launches his novel, The Maestro, The Magistrate and The Mathematician, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 18:45

The Bridge: A Play by ANNIE GEORGE to be staged at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
30/10/2015 20:30

Taking the Hard Road: Three Adventures on Two Wheels with ANNA HUGHES, KATE RAWLES and JULIAN SAYARER, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 10:30

STUART MCHARDY discusses his latest book, Scotland’s Future History, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 11:45

ROBIN TUDGE presents an illustrated talk on Travels in North Korea, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 12:45

The Lure of Adventure and What It Offers Us with JAY GRIFFITHS, RED SZELL and MALACHY TALLACK, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 14:00

LISA MCKENZIE discusses Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 15:30

TOM SPERLINGER, author of Romeo & Juliet in Palestine, in conversation with SARAH IRVING, author of Leila Khaled, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 16:45

M. TESTA or MALATESTA disusses Militant Anti-Fascism: 100 Years of Resistance, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 18:00

MEAGHAN DELAHUNT launches Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 18:30

From the Oxford Bar to Helmand and Home Again with KARINE POLWART, CLAIRE LAMOND and R. L. McKINNEY, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
31/10/2015 19:15

ANDY WIGHTMAN and FI MARTYNOGA discuss The Treasures of Scotland’s Coastline, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
1/11/2015 10:45

JAY GRIFFITHS and SUE PALMER discuss Detoxing Childhood in the 21st Century, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
1/11/2015 12:15

BEN STEWART discusses The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
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, at the 19th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair
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

See www.word-power.co.uk for more information.

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