Editors' picks
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Poets in Edinburgh
Podcast: Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead and Kay Ryan head an international poetry line-up - with a new folk setting of a poem by Norman MacCaig -
Authors' favourite words – a video alphabet
A for a-whoring, z for zulu: From Alasdair Gray to Neil Gaiman and Ruby Wax, festival authors explain their favourite words
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Where have all the brave girls gone?
Kate Mosse: Writers of grown-up fiction should be bold enough to match the active and adventurous female protagonists of children's literature -
Against the clock
The books interview: The novelist talks to Emma Brockes about zombies, bees – and why she had to finish her latest novel, MaddAddam, on a train -
Birds and people
Audio slideshow: From the avian gods of ancient civilisations to battery hens of today, a spectacular new book by Mark Cocker and photographer David Tipling explores humanity's relationship with – and exploitation of – birds
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