Edinburgh Book Festival
James Naughtie welcomed Lady Antonia Fraser by saying that the one thing that leaps out of her new historical…
A. L. Kennedy is no stranger to the Edinburgh International Book Festival, or indeed to other such events.
"Guilt," a late friend of this reviewer's observed, "is a useless emotion." Except perhaps insofar as it…
It is now fifty years since the tragic death of Sylvia Plath who committed suicide aged just 30.
How did they get away with it? The outrage among the audience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on…
"Stories in Stone" is the title of a series of podcasts to be launched by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature…
The Baillie Gifford Corner Theatre was full for this interesting session by two men who had interesting…
Anna Day, founder and director of the Dundee Literary Festival introduced this event entitled Killer Queen -…
Philip Ziegler is a well known biographer and historian with some twenty four books to his name, including…
Something rather cheerful appears to have
happened to A.L. Kennedy of late - she fair bounced into the RBS…
Alzheimer's and dementia are words most of us fear. We may know those who do or have suffered from these…
Chef Mark Greenaway strides on to the platform as if ready to give us a cookery demonstration but he is here…
This was billed as "The Baker Tilly Event" and was another packed, sell-out for the Book Festival indicating…
Iain Macwhirter’s ‘Road to Referendum’, a potted history of how we got to where we are, is now in paperback,…
The Peppers Theatre was packed for this intriguingly titled session by Matthew Smith on "Who Really Killed…
Mark Urban, the Diplomatic Editor of BBC 2 Newsnight was welcomed back to Edinburgh by Al Senter who was…
An audience with A L Kennedy is never less than an interesting pleasure.
The imaginative, invented world of fiction can often explore contemporary real life issues in a more profound…
This was a totally fascinating and entertaining hour with Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, ably chaired by…
This was an exceptional experience and the talk by Paul Roberts, the Curator of the British Museum's current…