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26 Aug 2014:Marcus Sedgwick is a man of many stories: an alternate, flooded Britain, vampire folklore, the Russian Revolution – what can we expect from him next? As our teen reporter Patrick Sproull finds out, it's an homage to film director Stanley Kubrick…
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26 Aug 2014: Sam Wilkinson and Felicity Deamer: A promising approach to treating people who hear voices, also known as ‘auditory hallucinations’, is to get the patient or therapist to interact with the speaker
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25 Aug 2014:
Newsflash: the Harry Potter author introduced the teenage education activist at her sold-out talk at the Edinburgh festival
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25 Aug 2014:
Survey of Edinburgh books festival authors reveals that 'hearing a character' means different things over course of a writing career
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25 Aug 2014:
We cross over to the dark side with novels from Javier Cercas and Ned Beauman
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24 Aug 2014:
The Japanese author talked writing, heroes, domestic life, dreams and how his life informs his novels at a Guardian book club at the Edinburgh international book festival – and he answered some of your questions
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22 Aug 2014:
Hearing the human voice was central to the Victorian novelist's technique. He claimed that he did not invent, but merely wrote down what he heard and imagined
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21 Aug 2014:
Patricia Waugh: The two novelists' books reveal how different varieties of hallucination can inspire and threaten creative work
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21 Aug 2014:
We look at the shorter forms of fiction with Andrés Neuman and Donal McLaughlin
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21 Aug 2014: Peter Moseley: If we want to understand what’s happening in the brain when people ‘hear voices’, we first need to understand what happens during ordinary inner speech
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20 Aug 2014:
Guardian first book award winner Donal Ryan takes us back to county Tipperary, while Michèle Forbes heads to Belfast for a novel of submerged secrets
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19 Aug 2014:
Laura Barton: The Morvern Callar author used to celebrate finishing a book by spending four days in the pub. At 50, he has eased up a bit, but he hasn't lost any enthusiasm for literature or his homeland
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19 Aug 2014:
The two novelists talk about how the Allied invasion of Sicily and wartime camouflage inform their new books
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19 Aug 2014:
Marco Bernini: The literal sounds in his characters' minds express a subtle and revealing understanding of how we all talk to ourselves
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Gallery (16 pictures),
19 Aug 2014:
James Mayhew is the 2014 Illustrator-in-Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. In this gallery to mark the 25th anniversary of the much-loved picture book Katie's Picture Show, author and illustrator James reveals how he creates the Katie books – and what the next one is about...
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