Edinburgh international book festival 2014
Children's books
Marcus Sedgwick: My next book is a response to 2001: A Space OdysseyInner voices
Talking to the voices in our heads
Children's books
JK Rowling and Malala Yousafzai meet at the Edinburgh international book festivalNewsflash: the Harry Potter author introduced the teenage education activist at her sold-out talk at the Edinburgh festival
Books blog
How do writers find their voices?Survey of Edinburgh books festival authors reveals that 'hearing a character' means different things over course of a writing career
The Guardian Books podcast
Ned Beauman and Javier Cercas – Edinburgh books podcastWe cross over to the dark side with novels from Javier Cercas and Ned Beauman
Books blog
Haruki Murakami: 'My lifetime dream is to be sitting at the bottom of a well'The Japanese author talked writing, heroes, domestic life, dreams and how his life informs his novels at a Guardian book club at the Edinburgh international book festival – and he answered some of your questions
Inner voices
Hearing voices allowed Charles Dickens to create extraordinary fictional worldsHearing the human voice was central to the Victorian novelist's technique. He claimed that he did not invent, but merely wrote down what he heard and imagined
Inner voices
Hilary Mantel and Virginia Woolf on the sounds in writers' mindsPatricia Waugh: The two novelists' books reveal how different varieties of hallucination can inspire and threaten creative work
The Guardian Books podcast
Andrés Neuman and Donal McLaughlin – Edinburgh books podcastWe look at the shorter forms of fiction with Andrés Neuman and Donal McLaughlin
Notes & Theories
Talking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your headPeter Moseley: If we want to understand what’s happening in the brain when people ‘hear voices’, we first need to understand what happens during ordinary inner speech
The Guardian Books podcast
Irish fiction at Edinburgh with Donal Ryan and Michèle Forbes – podcastGuardian first book award winner Donal Ryan takes us back to county Tipperary, while Michèle Forbes heads to Belfast for a novel of submerged secrets
Alan Warner: booze, books and why he's backing Scottish independence
The Guardian Books podcast
Adam Foulds and Gerard Woodward on the second world war - Edinburgh books podcastInner voices
Samuel Beckett's articulation of unceasing inner speechChildren's books
Katie: 25 years of James Mayhew's book series – in pictures
Murdo MacLeod's portraits of authors at the 2014 Edinburgh international book festival, part II
From George RR Martin to Phill Jupitus and Ali Smith, Murdo MacLeod has been turning his lens on more authors
Eyewitness
Eyewitness: Edinburgh, ScotlandPhotographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Children's books
Why death is so important in YA fictionShould adults be concerned about how much death appears in teen books? Not at all, argues YA author Rupert Wallis, in fact, they could learn a lot about life and death by reading them too
Books blog
Phill Jupitus, Hannah Silva, Hollie McNish and the poetry of protestHebridean poet wins UK's richest poetry prize with debut collection
About 51 results for Edinburgh international book festival 2014 
