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Book Haul | The Edinburgh Book Festival
And finally here are all the books I bought at the festival. I was quite surprised by how expensive some of the books were, I mean I know all sales help support the festival, but some of the hardbacks I wanted to buy were £25 each. At that price I would rather find them cheaper elsewhere. I knew going in I would be buying The Rest of Us Just Live Here but apart from that I tried to buy books I hadn’t come across before. Basically I wanted to buy books that weren’t already on my TBR list. That plan sort of worked. BOOK HAUL The Secret History of Wonder…
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Edinburgh Book Festival: Day 2
My second day at the festival also happened to be the second day of the festival. The plan for this day was meet a friend for lunch, have a wander around the bookshop at the festival (possibly buy some books) then go see Matt Haig give the Siobhan Dowd lecture. We started out by going to the new Yo Sushi for lunch. This is right on Princess Street and if you managed to get a table by the windows you get a lovely view looking out onto the castle. The bookshop was huge and fantastical and I wanted to take all of the books home with me however, it was…
