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THE lorries will come again tonight and start taking it all away. Tents, toilets, bookshops, bars: all will soon be gone from Charlotte Square for another year. There is no more elegiac sight in Edinburgh. Suddenly you start to notice how cold it's getting, how oddly empty that square is without schoolchildren filing excitedly across the grass or queues shuffling forward on the duckboards towards secular communion in the main tent.
Statistically, this was the most successful book festival ever, with 220,000 visitors and half its shows sold out. But, critically, and in terms of what it leaves behind in the memory, just how well does it compare with previous years?See the full content of this document
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Confessions, Courage, Nationhood and a Festival of Joy
Some events will stick in the mind. Dario Fo showing how he first began acting, with performances on a swaying train to Milan for his fellow passengers. His wife, Franco Rame, on how she first kissed hi...
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