“The event, the world’s largest literature festival, sold nearly 80% of all its tickets for more than 750 events this year, mirroring a record level of 1.85m ticket sales announced by the Edinburgh festival fringe yesterday. The book festival, held chiefly in a village of tents in the New Town, was also larger than last year…. The bookshops on site also saw a ‘significant upturn’, the festival said….”