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    Haggis Hunting
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    Every so often, even a blasé Edinburgh audience is moved to utter that much-overused word ‘unique’. It happened with what became known as ‘the cherry blossom Macbeth‘, it happened with the premiere of Mary Queen of Scots got her Head Chopped Off, and it happened on the second day of the Haggis Hunting conference. The Traverse Theatre presented an acted reading of a recreation of the 1522 (?) version of Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis. This version is due

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    The Edinburgh Companion to 20th Century British and American War Literature
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    For such a substantial and outwardly formidable collection of essays that explore Anglophone creative, literary and innovative reactions to the various conflicts of the twentieth century, each essay is in itself incisive, scrupulously researched, nuanced and above all highly accessible. Adam Piette reminds us twice that this volume is ‘exemplary rather than comprehensive’, aiming ‘to inspire new directions’ and ‘roads that might be taken in the future’. One of its strengths is this awareness that it is not the definitive

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    A Cheeky Wee Book
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    As far as primers, literary guides or introductions go, this ‘critical caper’ belongs in a class of its own. Contrived to introduce to a new, younger generation the delights of Spark’s oeuvre, it is out of the run-of-the-mill. It almost defies description. Insightful and irreverent, flippant and engaging, incisive and trivialising, it will cause some to belly-laugh, and others to squirm in embarrassment. …

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    Will
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    In this audacious novel, CHRISTOPHER RUSH dares to take on the voice of the world’s most famous playwright. Shakespeare is on his deathbed and decides to put his affairs into order and draw up his will. So begins his valediction to the world. …

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