Edinburgh Book Festival
This was an introduction to the two authors as a part of the Newton First Book Award and was chaired by…
Sometimes one comes across something that seems a little slight at first, that then proves to be more durable…
The session ("Telling Tales: The Vital Important of Stories") was chaired by Claire Armistead, who caught our…
I finally managed to catch Sandy McCall Smith on Friday, 19th August having tried to book a session with him…
Whether or not the demise of the book as we’ve known it is in sight, it’s clear there are a lot of…
The Speigeltent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival was near stowed for what promised to be a lively…
BBC reporter Peter Taylor's new book "Talking to Terrorists" sets out what it was like to come face to face…
If he were still among us, Czeslaw Milosz would have celebrated his hundredth birthday this year.
With a title like this and her recent wide appeal as a contestant in "Strictly Come Dancing" this show was…
With Al Senter as chair, Bath described the astonishing story of Tommy Macpherson's very full life.
The e-book, along with content-containing apps and an increasing range of electronic and digital methods of…
Peter Hart is the Oral Historian at the Imperial War Museum and an internationally recognised expert on…
On the evening of Sunday 14th August, the small Peppers Theatre stage was packed with poets – not the usual…
The Crimean War is somehow imagined in the British Isles to be a minor conflict against Russia and of no…
T C Boyle cuts a figure that is more rock star than Distinguished Professor – tall, extravagantly quiffed and…
We're around about the half-way mark of the Edinburgh Fringe (if you include preview dates), and I thought it…
This was the Scottish Power Event, chaired by Nick Barley, the Director of the Edinburgh International Book…
An all-female shortlist for the fourth annual Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition has been announced. Five poems…
Late literary nights are set to last a little bit longer this August with the return of Unbound to the…
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is reporting an unprecedented demand for tickets with over 300,000…