Edinburgh Book Festival

Francesca Martinez and Mark Thomas really ought to consider forming a double act, on the strength of their…
Billed as considering ā€˜The Emotional Arguments', the final debate of three sponsored by The Guardian…
Kate Summerscale became a best selling author with ā€œThe Suspicions of Mr Whicherā€, about the scandalous real…
Andy Wightman’s appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, like that of many another author,…
The late John Bellany (1942 – 2013) is regarded as a major Scottish – indeed European - Figurative…
The imaginative, invented world of fiction can often explore contemporary real life issues in a more profound…
How can you describe such a literary phenomenon as Alexander McCall Smith?
As the second anniversary of the Maidan protests which ousted the Yanukovich-led government in Ukraine…
Roy Hattersley came to the first Edinburgh Book Festival in 1983 and has appeared in every year since then -…
While David Mitchell was on holiday, stand-up comedian Stewart Lee had the opportunity to take his place as a…
This event, the final in a series at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (and almost the final one of…
Jenny Brown, as the founder and first Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival (as it was known before being…
For over thirty years, Alastair Reid has deserved five stars.
That Neil Gunn and Maurice Walsh were close friends is a matter of record, attested by the 30 or so letters…
Peter Pomerantsev spent ten years working for TNT, the Russian television channel.
To live in central Edinburgh is to continually walk through history.
Wedged among a bevy of blue rinses, it was tempting to speculate how many had turned out on yet another…
This, the Thomas Miller Investment Event, was chaired by Ian Fraser, whose book on the RBS collapse, "…
It isn’t every book which has an introduction by Dolly Parton, and the very thought might put some off…
This was a totally fascinating and entertaining hour with Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, ably chaired by…