"Apparently sales have gone up 40%, " said Mr Prescott at the Edinburgh international book festival.
Ness will be discussing A Monster Calls at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Saturday 20 August.
In Moscow, she's going to be attending a book festival that Russian first lady Lyudmila Putina modeled after Mrs.
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This year's winners will be announced at Edinburgh Book Festival in August.
Author Ian McEwan and former prime minister Gordon Brown will be among the names appearing at this year's Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Plans for a book festival in Blairgowrie, a tourist bus in Breadalbane and a bridge near St Fillans have also been awarded money.
Adrian Turpin, director of the Wigtown Book Festival, says it is, quite simply, the biggest thing to happen since the book town was born.
The Banff Festival, which started in 1975, is the biggest film and book festival devoted to the outdoors and those who play in it.
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And I think that's why we've already had the very successful early childhood education summit last week and announced the ... the National Book Festival today.
Bush's National Book Festival last year in the United States.
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Edinburgh International Book Festival director Nick Barley said although Banks would not be able to make his regular visit there "one way or another he'll be the star of the show".
Not long after, it became obvious that my bag, a freebie from the National Book Festival, was a mini-compost pile, with a pretty obvious lining of various meat and vegetable sleazes.
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As the directors of Edinburgh's festivals returned to their day jobs, it was the turn of Children's laureate Julia Donaldson and three of her best-known illustrators to take to the Book Festival spotlight.
As the polo shirts left the area three well-dressed 50-something men, who wouldn't look out of place at a book festival, stood up towards the back of the balcony and placed white sticky labels over their mouths.
"The kids come in and read stories to Bailey and other therapy dogs for about 15 or 20 minutes at a time, " says Wilmoth, who was interviewed by iReporter Jennifer Sias at the West Virginia Book Festival.
Others felt the venue, a four-star hotel on Rangoon's Inya Lake, had deterred some people from coming, with a local book festival taking place at the same time in the city centre drawing more than 4, 000 participants a day.
Adam is a festival veteran - at the age of 11 - and writes a blog on his experiences so do not be surprised to see him back onstage at next year's book festival, launching his own book.
The iconic hotel sits on the ritzy Boulevard de la Croisette, and is also home to a lengthy list of stars who book rooms during the festival, including longtime guests such as Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino and Jude Law.
She described attending a chocolate festival and a book fair with Kercher.
The festival begins with a World Book Night event on 23 April.
Two days later, outside the Northwest Folklife Festival in the city centre, a man carrying a book was shot in the leg by stray gunfire.
Writers Hari Kunzru, Amitava Kumar, Jeet Thayil and Ruchir Joshi read extracts from the book to protest against Mr Rushdie's withdrawal, leading the festival organisers to distance themselves from the readings.
There is also an annual Festival of Ideas in the UK, which awards a prize to the best idea book.
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The festival reflects the fact that for the past five years Los Angeles has been the biggest book market in the country.
With Saturday's headliner Phoenix, the French alt-rock group, and the beloved-but-familiar Red Hot Chili Peppers closing the three-day weekend on Sunday, it seemed as if Coachella had settled on lesser acts after failing to, or choosing not to, book the recently rejuvenated David Bowie or the Rolling Stones, who will headline this summer's Glastonbury Festival in England.
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The records have been made available to coincide with the latest big-screen version of the book - a film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio is released in May and is opening Cannes Film Festival.
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