I've missed the first week of the Edinburgh International Book Festival as I've been somewhat under the weather, but to give all of us absent friends a flavour of it I thought I'd post one of its 'sidelights', if I can put it that way, the gallery of writers' portraits by Edinburgh photographer Chris Close which you can find around the festival site in Charlotte Square Gardens.
You can see a few of Chris's great pictures here, and if you're on Periscope and following Edinburgh Book Fest (@edbookfest) you can catch a short film of him at work, photographing A.C. Grayling, and talking about some of this week's shots.
Chris has collected 100 of his best pictures in a book, Between the Lines: Portraits of Authors
Shown here is, of course, Colm Tóibín.
Lovely ....and do hope you feel much better soon! Miserable to be Ill during Boomfest! X
Posted by: Adele Geras | 22 August 2015 at 05:26 PM
I hope you feel better very soon Karen.
Posted by: Freda | 22 August 2015 at 05:33 PM
More like myself today, thanks, Adele, but vexed I've missed some good events!
Posted by: Cornflower | 22 August 2015 at 05:37 PM
Thank you, Freda, a little light blog-reading and Instagram-viewing have been cheering and diverting while other things have been beyond me, but I'm sure I'm on the mend.
Posted by: Cornflower | 22 August 2015 at 05:40 PM
Sorry to hear you've been ill. That image of the marvellous C T should be a tonic. What a face and what a writer!! As they say, I could listen to him read the phone book, or better still extemporise on it.
Posted by: Martina | 23 August 2015 at 02:57 AM
Hope you're feeling much better now. I do hope the CT lecture was not one that you had to miss. I was there and he was entertaining, eloquent and obviously has a huge brain. Chaired by Hermione Lee so win, win! I went to her lecture the following day and could have listened to her for another hour or more. She was so easy and informative. I have Anne Enright and Pat Barker tickets this weekend. How lucky we are to have all this in Edinburgh.
Posted by: Claire | 26 August 2015 at 08:20 AM
This book sounds wonderful. I will try to locate a copy. I hope you feel better and can attend some of the festival. Edinburgh is one of my favorite cities.
Posted by: Sunday Taylor | 29 August 2015 at 10:27 PM
Dear Cornflower, sorry to hear you have been under the weather. May I ask.....have you posted anything on the brilliant Elena Ferrante books...? Just received, in the mail from Amazon, the fourth book.....the first three so, so, so good, what do you think?
Posted by: Rose | 16 September 2015 at 08:41 PM