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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop, 43 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Lighthouse Bookshop welcomes the authors of Censored: A Literary History of Subversion and Control, Katherine Inglis and Matthew Fellion, for a unique celebration of free speech and intellectual freedom as part of Banned Books Week!
Free speech and censorship are at the heart of contemporary political debate – but how has our conception of censorship evolved? The list of books suppressed in the English language features the sacred and profane, poetic and pornographic, famous and infamous. Why these books, and how?
In Censored Inglis and Fellion offer a fascinating showcase of the variety of suppressed literature, the methods and consequences of censorship, and landmarks in the history of free speech. A book dedicated to those who, free to speak, are powerless to be heard, Censored is a vitally important, concrete contribution to a debate so often disconnected from fact, and from history.