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Posted by Tom, June 20, 2013

The 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival

The line-up for the 2013 Edinburgh International Book Festival has just been announced, and there’ll be some fantastic events by Nosy Crow authors taking place!

On Sunday 11 August at 2.00pm, festival stalwart Philip Ardagh will be appearing to celebrate The Grunts all at Sea, the second hilarious book in The Grunts series. Expect beards, bees, and something called a POGI. Tickets cost £4.50 and you can buy them online here. And here’s the first chapter of The Grunts all at Sea:

Speaking later on Sunday 11 August, at 5.00pm, will be Catherine Wilkins, author of My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters, at an event with Fiona Foden, talking about friends, enemies, families and first love! Tickets are £4.50 and can bought online here. And if you’re new to Catherine’s books, you can read the first chapter of her hilarious debut, My Best Friend and other Enemies, here:

And on Tuesday 13 August at 3.30pm, Olivia series author Lyn Gardner will be discussing the spellbinding final volume in the series, Olivia’s Curtain Call. Tickets are £4.50 and you can find more details here. And here’s chapter one – the beginning of the end…

You can find more details for the whole festival programme at the Edinburgh website, here. We hope you can make it!

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