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Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button. Published Date: 18 October 2009 FOR Scotland's literati – the avid readers, the poets, the novelists, the publishers, the critics, the administrators, the illustrators, the booksellers – the announcement was keenly anticipated. And when the name of the new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival was finally made known last week there was a blizzard of phone calls, texts and e-mails dissecting the news. Unfortunately for Nick Barley, the man who had landed on e of Scotland's most prestigious jobs, the tone was one of consternation rather than enthusiasm. After a year in which it was feared the festival might be losing its direction, the arts world was hoping for a visionary leader; a literary heavyweight, with international... [read full story]
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