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Welcome to our book festival. It's diverse, inclusive but don't forget your pronouns

Welcome to our book festival. It's diverse, inclusive but don't forget your pronouns

I feel the organisers of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival have been unfairly maligned for seeking to bring kindness into the cruel and brutal world of literature and publishing. They’ve chosen ‘Repair’ as the core theme and hope to “explore the many things around us which feel broken, and how we might seek to fix them …” Huzzah and not before time, I say.

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