The Mountains of Instead

Championing fiction as an escape from pandemics, politics and bad TV.

Matt Haig, Kevin Maher on Real Life at EIBF 2013

Both Kevin and Matt are newly recognised authors at this year’s festival – Kevin, breaking ground with his debut novel The Fields and Matt finally finding the acceptance his work deserves with The Humans (and we all know I loved The Humans!).  Both men are personable and self-deprecating in equal m…
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Lenore Appelhans takes it to the next Level at Edinburgh Book Fest (Interview)

Lenore Appelhans, author of the weird and wonderful Level 2 will be known to lots of you through her excellent book blog Presenting Lenore. Articulate, thoughtful and quick to help those new to the book blogging scene (as she did with Splendibird three years ago when these here mountains were more.…
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Roving Reporter PolkaDot Steph talks Star Author Patrick Ness at EIBF 2013

I'm not entirely sure what we could say about Patrick Ness that we haven't already said on The Mountains of Instead (see the links at the bottom of the page) but in the words of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where Ness talked on Saturday, Patrick Ness is "the greatest youn…
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Best of the (EIB)Fest 2013

Here at the Mountains of Instead, we aim to spread our unashamed love of all things book-y to the far reaching corners of the internet. So if any of our gallant readers plan to head to the Scottish capital to sample the wonderful goings on at this time of year, here are the MOI team’s pick of this …
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