Edinburgh Book Festival
Clearly Nina Stibbe is already very popular as this event was completely sold out.
This was a splendid 'tour de force' by Paddy Ashdown which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.
Wilbur Smith was introduced by Jackie McGlone as the author of some thirty four novels which had sold…
While it may have been natural for the Edinburgh International Book Festival to commence its ‘Re-Thinking The…
Andy Hamilton, probably best known for appearances on ‘Have I Got News For You’ and ‘QI’ and rather less so…
Ruth Wishart in the Chair, introduced Harriet Harman as someone who had her own set of rules; she was a…
There was a packed house for the Baillie Gifford event with hostage survivor Ingrid Betancourt and Kirsty…
There can be no doubt that publishing is undergoing significant and long-lasting change.
This was a politician at his best! Malcolm Rifkind was in ebullient mood when he spoke to a full house at…
Professor Murray Pittock’s new work on Culloden seeks to scotch (pun partly intended) three principal myths…
"The Wealth of Nations" has never been out of publication since it first appeared some two hundred and thirty…
Joan Bakewell belied her age, which apparently is eighty three, and looked stunning in an orange coat with…
On balance, Adam Phillips may have one of the sharpest, penetrating and prescient minds in Britain today.
As part of the Muriel Spark 100 celebrations, Alan Taylor, literary critic, writer and close friend of the…
The e-book, along with content-containing apps and an increasing range of electronic and digital methods of…
Jonathan Dimbleby had Magnus Linklater in the chair for this Experian event looking at 'Where World War Two…
Some of the best art is scarcely noted.
Peter Gutteridge took the stage alone to introduce Jeremy Vine who then bounded on to the platform from the…
Superlatives are weak and ineffective when in presence of a true master in his field: the newspaper comic…
Kate Summerscale is renowned for her non fiction “thriller”, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (one of the…