Edinburgh International Book Festival - Ian McEwan
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is one of our greatest living writers, creating modern classics including Atonement, Enduring Love, On Chesil Beach, Amsterdam, The Children Act, and Saturday. Ahead of the highly anticipated publication of his new novel, What We Can Know, McEwan reflects on a truly remarkable career which has produced so many works which are at once timeless and yet always remain in close conversation with current affairs

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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Asako Yuzuki
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Asako Yuzuki

Asako Yuzuki has written over 20 novels in her native Japanese. She talks to us about her novel’s themes of sexism, fatphobia, the pleasures of consumption, and the unfairness of beauty standards, as well as her mission to elevate the status of Japan’s women through powerful storytelling.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Samantha Harvey
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey’s 2024 Booker Prize-winning Orbital juxtaposes the majestic with the intimate in an exquisite depiction of awe, fragility, and contemplative observation. Harvey returns to the Festival to reflect on her year since winning one of literature’s highest honours and what it means to write life in space with the sensibility of a nature writer.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Penny Johnson
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Penny Johnson

Penny Johnson is a founding member of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University and has published articles and edited a number of important books on Palestine. Her latest book, Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, written with awyer, writer, and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh explores the landscape of Israel and Palestine to show how monuments which have been created, maintained, or neglected map the political and cultural struggles which fragment the land today.

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