Edinburgh Book Festival
Published alongside the exhibition ‘Photography; A Victorian Sensation’ presented at the National Museum of…
Kirsty Wark is a highly respected television presenter, best known for fronting the BBC 2 current affairs…
We're weel kent for pithiness in this part
of the world. For summing up our fellows, often to their detriment…
A. L. Kennedy is no stranger to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, or indeed to other such events.
This was quite simply pure entertainment and an hour of brilliant humour!
‘What ish my nation?’ is Captain Fluellen’s rhetorical demand in Shakespeare’s ‘Henry V’, his response being…
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Jenny Brown, as the founder and first Director of the Edinburgh Book Festival (as it was known before being…
Nick Davies is an impressive individual who has rightly been named as the Journalist of the Year and also…
The National Theatre of Scotland has the ironically inclusive slogan of ‘theatre without walls’ having in…
Francesca Martinez and Mark Thomas really ought to consider forming a double act, on the strength of their…
Alex Salmond has been appearing at the Edinburgh International Book Festival since 2006.
Late in the seventeenth century, an as yet independent Scotland sought to catch up in the fast-paced race for…
Cuba is the only communist country where I have not felt under constant watch by secret police or informers,…
This was yet another sold out event and based on this event, every appearance of Alexander McCall Smith…
Douglas Newton and David Olusoga came together with Al Senter, in the Chair, to look at the other side of the…
There was a full house in the Baillie Gifford Main Theatre, where Alfred Brendel was joined by his co-author…
This, the Thomas Miller Investment Event, was chaired by Ian Fraser, whose book on the RBS collapse, "…
This was an exceptional experience and the talk by Paul Roberts, the Curator of the British Museum's current…
Chef Mark Greenaway strides on to the platform as if ready to give us a cookery demonstration but he is here…