Letterbox: Bookish & Filmish

Letterbox: Bookish & Filmish

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Edition 10: Edinburgh in August, TIFF & Hollywood

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Helen Walsh
Jul 26, 2021
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My Own Private Edinburgh

In a normal year, mid-July would find me busily preparing to leave for Edinburgh. 

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I’d be readying to get up at 3:15am (8:15am BT) to buy  Book Festival tickets as soon as the box office opened, scouring @lyngardner’s Twitter feed for Fringe suggestions and pouring over the International Festival catalogue for opera/theatre/dance …

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